ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories engineer has won a Department of Energy environmental award for helping halve the amount of water used to cool a high-performance computer data center in 2017 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. David J. Martinez, engineering project lead for Sandia’s infrastructure computing services, received the […]
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Water use cut in half at federal lab in Colorado, thanks in part to Sandia
October 19, 2018 – 5:00 am
New cooling method for supercomputers to save millions of gallons of water
August 31, 2016 – 7:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In different parts of the country, people discuss gray-water recycling and rainwater capture to minimize the millions of gallons of groundwater required to cool large data centers. But the simple answer in many climates, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher David J. Martinez, is to use liquid refrigerant. Based on that principle, Martinez […]