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

  • Farman [any]
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    2 years ago

    Interesting. I tougth it wass all marketing after all they had 8ghz celeron procesors back in the day. But isnt the limit to liquid cooling the interface between the chip and the fluid? It wold sem very hard to improve on that unles you got bigger chips?

    • 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