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Cooling unit saves half-million gallons of water at Sandia supercomputing center
February 18, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A cooling unit installed on the roof of Sandia National Laboratories’ supercomputer center saved 554,000 gallons of water during its first six months of operation last year, says David J. Martinez, engineering project lead for Sandia’s Infrastructure Computing Services. The dramatic decrease in water use, important for...
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Dave Martinez inspects a thermosyphon cooler

New cooling method for supercomputers to save millions of gallons of water
August 31, 2016 • 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....
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Dave Martinez