Our innovative DUG Cool system used across our global network of supercomputers is helping the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) reduce its carbon emissions.
Earlier this year, we processed 450 hours of data from the Murchison Widefield Array, a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, for ICRAR.
Our DUG Cool system (Patent Publication WA2017/091862A1), in which standard high-performance computing servers are submerged in polyalphaolefin dielectric fluid, delivers total power savings of approximately 46% over a traditional, air-cooled data centre. What’s more our DUG Cool data centres use 81% less refrigerant, and have a demonstrated 81% reduction in embodied carbon dioxide. That’s up to 58,500 tonnes less CO2 emissions per annum.
We’re proud that our home-grown technology can make such a significant difference.
Read more about our collaboration with ICRAR and its efforts to reduce its carbon emissions in their recently published Sustainability Statement here.
Photo credit: Paul Geil & Simon Mutch / University of Melbourne
