Waste heat close to becoming useful in cooling / lighting applications (Saturday 27th of December 2008 03:11:00 AM)
Not that waste heat in general hasn't been repurposed for non-wasteful activities before, but
researchers at Doshisha health center are now edging ever closer to making useful the formerly
annoying thermoacoustic phenomenon. For those not really tied ...
(more)Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming (Friday 19th of December 2008 11:30:02 PM)
SUNSTOP writes to tell us that a somewhat unknown Maryland rocketer has measure a public patent
that he claims could combat global warming. The measure plan would require massive amounts of
water to be sprayed into the air in an effort to bolster the ...
(more)Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC (Friday 19th of September 2008 05:15:01 PM)
Ted Samson IW writes "InfoWorld reports on an idea in air economization, aka 'free cooling,'
conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 provision servers, working at 90
percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a convenience ...
(more)Liquid Metal CPU Heatsink Beats Water Cooling (Monday 21st of July 2008 08:45:02 PM)
Unassimilatible writes "Bios throwaway* is reporting that the world's first commercially
efficacious liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship. Danamics, a Danish company, claims
that its LM-10 outperforms measure air-cooled heatsinks and most watercooled ...
(more)Pimp My Datacenter (Wednesday 18th of June 2008 08:45:02 AM)
Snydeq writes "InfoWorld has put together an in-depth, hands-on feature report the complete
pimp-out makeover of Hawaii practice of Geophysics' 1950s-era server room into a bona-fide 21st
century datacenter equipped with 'some of the glitziest and most ...
(more)IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks (Friday 06th of June 2008 06:30:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "Water cooling will enable multi-core processors to be stacked into
3D cubes, as it should be to IBM's Zurich probing Laboratory which is demonstrating
three-dimensional chip stacks. By stacking memory chips between processor ...
(more)Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally (Friday 23rd of May 2008 06:11:23 AM)
Sdougal writes "This site is showing a Pico-ITX board running Ubuntu with no cooling
whatsoever. They even let the public guess how long it would last: 'Last week thousands of you
placed bets on how long the new Pico-ITX board from VIA, the VIA EPIA ...
(more)Asetek LCLC Takes Liquid Cooling Mainstream (Sunday 13th of April 2008 10:25:28 AM)
Bigwophh writes "Liquid cooling a PC has traditionally been considered an extreme solution,
pursued by enthusiasts trying to squeeze every last bit of completion from their systems. In
recent years, however, liquid cooling has moved toward the mainstream, ...
(more)CoolIT debuting new line of liquid cooling solutions at CES (Thursday 03rd of January 2008 06:51:00 PM)
Filed under: CES, Desktops, Peripherals
If you've been toying with the idea of overclocking
your rig, you may want to prevent it from experiencing any catastrophic meltdowns. Looking out
for you (and your hardware) is CoolIT, which is readying a new lineup ...
(more)Cooling Challenges an Issue In Rackspace Outage (Wednesday 14th of November 2007 01:30:15 AM)
Miller60 writes "If your data center's cooling system fails, how long do you have before your
servers overheat? The modest violet window for recovery from a grid power outage appears to
have been an issue in Monday night's downtime for some deal of Rackspace, ...
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