<![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> cloudcomputing + hot water for a town?

xeijix

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> Does anyone else find it creepy that all those identical houses are linked to IBM's building? It seems very big-brother-ish.

Margatron

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> Uhh... It's not the first CPU to break the 5ghz barrier.

A few overclocker's have taken CPU's past 5ghz using liquid nitrogen.

Here's a video of a guy doing it with a damn Pentium 4!! lol


+ Watch video

Kakkoister

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> It looks like dancing lights.

Amiash Loves You

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @strider_mt2k: Agreed. And while "retard" certainly applies, might I also suggest "nincomPooP"?

bosskev

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @Kinglish: Someone please banhammer this retard already.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @feckineejit: Yes, but that will only be able to power some of your computer – for example regenerative brakes on an electric car are around 20% efficient.

Ethan Allison

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> What happens when you have a thunderstorm and the water pipe gets electrocuted? Bye bye 5ghz processors.

Wess

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> nice computer graphics

vote Obama

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @minjae: taptops?

bosskev

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @Curves: Just use one of these in the supercomputer! [www.thirstylight.com]

ackthbbft

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> if we have that in laptops we would have to connect it to a tap lol

@Ghede: lol

minjae

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @dfwguy: First of all I was 17 when IBM made the "thermal conduction module".

Second, that's not water cooling, that's helium cooling through an aluminum heatsink. The Power 575 skips the heatsink altogether, pumping water to within microns of the processor's core.

Finally, gerroff mah lawn!

CaseyG

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @theorie: Plus, taking energy from a heat engine would counteract the cooling system, so you'd need some kind of liquid-cooling to keep the chips cool.

Wait...

cyborgtroy

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> I'd make ramen with that.

cyborgtroy

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @dfwguy: Before most of us were bor in the 70's and 80's?!?! Holy crap does that make me feel old!

maven2k

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> Add a little Nescafé to the water, and the processor will take you anywhere in the universe.

DeadWriter

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @feckineejit: No, but it would be pretty cool to think that the excess heat from your GPU could run your sound card.

Brock

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @rockntrumpet: what i was going to say. There are ways to use heat to generate electricity, wich in turn can be pumped back into the system

Viva La Volvo

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> It's an interesting idea, similarly, fuel cell system boost their efficiency by salvaging waste heat and putting it back into the system. Hey if we can use the heat for something why not.

rockntrumpet

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> @feckineejit:

according to the the physical laws of energy conservation: no

theorie

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> I can see it now:

"Fire up the environmental simulations, I want to take a hot shower."

"CRAP! Don't run Crysys! I nearly lost my skin!"

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> I dunno. I mean, seeing the failures of leaking G5 Powermacs (the Power6 evolved from the PPC) I'm leary of anything liquid near my HAL.

SigmundTheSeaMonster

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> O_oa this is new? uhh...

MarsVolta

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> This is new? IBM was water cooling computers before most of us were born. They were water cooling components in the late 70's early 80's. See link:
[www-03.ibm.com]
@strider_mt2k: You're right, old tricks are the best.



dfwguy

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> Oh great, now when I buy a used computer I'm going to have to check if they put black pepper or broke an egg into it or something before putting it up for sale.

Old tricks are the best tricks, unfortunately.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> Most people forget to add fluid to their car radiators, how are we going to get them to add water to a computer?

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> can I use my pc heat to power a pressurized electric motor which I can use to power my pc?

feckineejit

]]> <![CDATA[IBM Mixes Water, Chips to Make Supercomputer And Cook Dinner Too]]> "Yup, I've seen this server issue before. Someone didn't thoroughly drain their pasta. Server death by ziti. When will people learn?"

Darrone

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