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Somebody call Mario I’m sure your gaming PC is astonishingly powerful and some of you probably have some pretty incredible custom built water cooling solutions, but they don’t stand a chance next to the water cooling system currently being installed at the Los Alamos’ Strategic Computing Center for the new Trinity supercomputer. Previous supercomputers at the SCC have been air-cooled, so this upgrade to the massive building needs to be in place before Trinity can start to be installed. Just be thankful you don’t have to upgrade your house when you get a new PC. In this case however the cost is a little more than what you might have paid for your gaming PC, with U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration paying $174 million, to US supercomputer hardware company Cray, to make a multi petaflop supercomputer system. According to the NNSA the supercomputer will be used to simulate “the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without the use of underground testing,” and when you put it like that, the $174 million bill suddenly doesn’t look so bad. The actual Trinity supercomputer, a next generation Cray XC machine, will be placed on top of all of those pipes and running through the pipes will be water from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Sanitary Effluent Reclamation Facility (SERF) that has been cooled by a cooling plant. No fancy lights on this machine though, so your gaming rig wins that round, for now. Inside the machine itself is going to be a combination of an unknown number of future-generation Haswells (probably 14-18 cores) and future Knights Landing processors (probably 72 cores per chip and 3 teraflops of peak performance!), complemented by an 82 petabyte capacity Cray Sonexion, distributed storage system with a throughput of 1.7Tbps (terabytes per second). “If this system were delivered today, it would be the fastest in the world” according to Barry Bolding, vice president of storage marketing at Cray. But there is at least a year before the supercomputer is delivered and installed, so by then there may be new competitors for the top spot in the world-wide supercomputer ranking, the so-called top500. The internals however, should give it the power it needs to compete with, if not overtake, the world’s fastest supercomputer, since June 2013, the Chinese Tianhe-2 at China’s National University of Defense Technology. This system currently delivers around 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) and is mainly made up of Intel Ivy Bridge Xeon processors and Xeon Phi chips, with a total of 3,120,000 cores. The current number two is only a measly 17.59 petaflops. Ever wanted to be a computer plumber? Source : http://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/brendan-morgan/water-cooling-in-a-super-computer-called-trinity/

Back in Black Bitcoin mining supercomputer manufacture Bitcoin Brothers is launching its hosted bitcoin mining services , After over two years in steath mode the duo lauched their new Bitcoin mining service with improved hardware Massive machines based on 3D 16nm FinFET ASICs are set to restore Bitcoin value and scale the blockchain for the future.. Bitcoin Brothers introduces Massive Super-Efficient Machines (MSEM) as the future computing platform of profitable Bitcoin Cloud Mining and blockchain transactions. The supercomputers at over 6 petahash each are built on the first 3D 16nm FinFET ASICs designed by and exclusive to Bitcoin Brothers. First 16nm ASIC in the Bitcoin world: 
outperforms 14nm chips in both computing power and low energy use No more risk of buying and operating mining hardware Offer pay-as-you-go flexible and inexpensive cloud mining Any amount of giga-, tera-, and petahashes to lease Miners retain full logical control of their operation and choice of pool Each supercomputer has the power of 5,000 stand-alone 1st-gen bricks Blockchain growth for the traffic expected with merchant and consumer adoption Founded by an ex-German military cryptologist Mark Welle and his brother Maik, the Berlin-based company is offering to sell mining services using its supercomputers that have processing capabilities of over 6 petahash Each 6-petahash MSEM contains 256,000 of our own 16nm FinFET Plus 3D ASICs Scales up to Meta-MSEMs, in which 1.5 exahash are controlled from a single console The new services means that bitcoin miners don’t have to invest in their own hardware, and can instead mine using the latest and greatest in bitcoin mining technology. PS: Todays Bitcoin Value as of this post date & time is 329.24$ The raw power of Bitcoin Brothers supercomputers not only offers a new efficiency level for the blockchain, but being so much more powerful than the world's fastest computers, makes the entire cryptocurrency market safe against brute-force hacking attacks by the time these guys will have deployed 1 exahash on the blockchain, these machines will likely be built on the 10nm ASIC level. Bonus: Post your comments down below... & Leave a like if possible Direct link: (press announcement) http://bitcoinbrothers.de/press/pr20141103 News link: http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/02/bitcoin-brothers-aim-to-disrupt-bitcoin-mining-with-new-more-powerful-supercomputers/