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q.kontinuum writes:

I just saw a story on a German news site about a new, power-efficient supercomputer, which claims 5.27 GFlops/watt; that makes it roughly 20% more efficient than the current leader of the Green 500 which has 4.39 GFlops/watt. The owner's press release is (also in German) here. Their website supports English as well, but currently not for this press release — you might want to check again later today.

I was thinking, maybe this is the new race in power-computing. In the past, energy costs played a substantial role in operation of a datacenter. Lowering this prohibitive cost makes power-computing suitable for lots of new organisations, which might have a much bigger impact than new local power-houses.

1. "q.kontinuum" - https://soylentnews.org/~q.kontinuum/
2. "German news site" - http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Weltweit-effizientester-Supercomputer-steht-bei-Darmstadt-2461144.html
3. "Green 500" - http://www.green500.org/lists/green201406
4. "here" - https://www.gsi.de/de/start/aktuelles/detailseite/2014/11/20/gsi-supercomputer-ist-energiespar-weltmeister.htm

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