How SGI cools 256 Itanium2's

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Get the skinny on how SGI cools this monster here.

What do you get when you package up to 256 Intel® Itanium®2 processors into a single computer node? The answer is the architecture for one of the fastest supercomputers in the world—and one heck of a thermal-management challenge.

also note this at the top of the article:
Pick the brains of the SGI engineering team on computer design and management of thermal problems at a special E2E (Engineer to Engineer) Technical Chat at 11 a.m. (EST) Feb. 17.

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