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The high-performance computing facility at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has helped researchers to run realistic simulations using enormously large data sets. They used the simulations to develop hardware to cut computer program runtimes. Credit: NTNU
Drastic cuts in data processing power consumption possible with new super smart hardware
The high-performance computing facility at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has helped
Image: (anti-clockwise from bottom left) Leader of the project NTU Associate Professor Wong Teck Neng, former Associate Professor Toh Kok Chuan, research fellow Ranjith Kandasamy, Asst Prof Ho Jin Yao, and research fellow Liu Pengfei, who developed the spray cooling system prototype for data centres (seen on the right).
New cooling spray for data centers could save up to 26 per cent in both energy costs and carbon footprint
Image: (anti-clockwise from bottom left) Leader of the project NTU Associate Professor Wong Teck Neng,
Practical superconductivity could significantly reduce the energy consumption of data centers by reducing waste heat

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Wireless ‘data center on a chip’ aims to revolutionize data centers and more

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Digital images stored in DNA — think Walmart sized data center in a sugar cube

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Microsoft Plumbs Ocean’s Depths to Test Underwater Data Center

Taking a page from Jules Verne, researchers at Microsoft believe the future of data centers

Data Center (Photo credit: BobMical)
No-wait data centers

New system could reduce data-transmission delays across server farms by 99.6 percent Big websites usually

Data centers of the future might be their own power plants

The data center of the future might do more than crunch and store information. In