High-performance computing centres use a great deal of electricity. In order to run its new computer centre in Lugano-Cornaredo as energy-efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, CSCS is using the natural resource of Lake Lugano to cool its supercomputers and the new building. A high-performance computing centre like the CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre) uses as [...]
If you did not have the chance to visit CSCS in the last months, then you can be interested in having a panorama view of the computer room (thanks to Mario Valle for the picture). As viewed from left to right: An old Dell PC used to demonstrate the computing power of a single CPU, [...]
Have a look to the assembling of the data center roof for the new Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano. In the movie (see here below) you can see the positioning of the roof beams for the new machine room. Each roof beam is 35 meters long and weights 50 tons.The machine room will [...]
We are glad to share with you the results of the Master Thesis (in German) of Christoph Möder entitled «Suggestions for optimizing the server room at the ETH Zurich based on a cost and energy analysis». Providers of HPC services are increasingly faced with questions about energy costs and this study provides a good reference [...]
