H-P Apollo 8000-the world’s first completely liquid-cooled supercomputer

From past years of computer history IBM was the sole hardware developer of high-end computing.Now a days,the things are changing.HP is going to challenge this. Recently H-P announced two new computer server products under the new Apollo brand name.

One of the machines, the H-P Apollo 6000, combines up to 160 low-end servers in one rack that H-P says will offer high performance computing capabilities that are superior to existing systems while using up to about half of the energy.

The other system, the H-P Apollo 8000, will be the world’s first completely liquid-cooled supercomputer that lets H-P compete for the first with IBM and Cray in the high end of the market, says Antonio Neri, H-P’s head of servers and networking.The Apollo 8000 cools the machines by sending water through channels built into the chassis surrounding the computers. The warm water is then circulated out of the chassis through a pipe system that companies must build in their data centers. H-P says the warm water can be used to heat parts of other facilities.

references:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/09/h-p-to-challenge-ibm-in-supercomputing-with-apollo/?mod=ST1