Super power needs

What does it take for supercomputers to model nuclear reactions, test the efficacy of medicines, or predict climate?

Lots and lots of power!

A supercomputer can consume up to tens of megawatts of power—data centres worldwide use more energy than some large countries!

Keeping it cool

Electrical power is used to keep a supercomputer’s hardware running, but this also generates a lot of heat!

Without an efficient cooling system, supercomputers cannot operate. Traditionally, they are blasted with cooled air, which is an energy-intensive method of cooling.

Innovation paves the way

Today’s data centre industry has a carbon footprint as large as the entire aviation sector. As supercomputers get faster and more powerful, and inevitably, more power-hungry, it becomes ever more important to limit the industry’s carbon emissions as we usher in a more sustainable future.

New technologies have been developed in computing hardware, architecture, and cooling to achieve energy efficiency goals in HPC systems.

Immersion cooling has emerged as a power-saving, innovative technology to cool supercomputers, where hardware is completely submerged in fluid as a way to regulate its temperature. Our patented immersion-cooling technology, DUG Cool, helps to reduce our power consumption by up to 51%!