One of several articles on this: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-china-supercomputers-idCAKBN2R223O

  • sputnik1 [comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    Most gear is still air-cooled but that’s changing pretty quickly

    Liquid cools like 3000x more efficiently than air, something like that

    Also see ideas like this: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/08/beat-heat-3d-chip-stacks-icecool/

    I think IBM still has a 5Ghz mainframe chip out there but since multicore era frequency is mostly ~2-3 Ghz