Trying to overcome the limitations of modern power systems and cooling circuits, IBM researchers have decided to borrow the idea underlying the system of blood supply. It is assumed that this will create сверхвысокопроизводительные processors capable to cope with the most demanding tasks of processing huge amounts of data in real time.
Performs the function of the blood flowing in the brain by a network of blood vessels. According to the researchers, if they can replicate this "know-how", the rewards will increase energy efficiency by four orders of magnitude with increasing packaging density chips six orders (for those that like to show off in the comments mathematical erudition - yes, it is 10 000 and 1 000 000 times, respectively).
According to the researchers, in a typical chip only one millionth of the volume are the transistors that perform a useful function, and the lion's share of the volume used for cooling. In the brain, the functional part of the 40% of the volume on the internal connections - 50% and 10% - for cooling.
Direction of development has been identified as early as 2011 , and now we are talking about the first implementation.
After a chip with a bulk arrangement offered to pump a liquid electrolyte, which will bring the chip charged particles are required to operate the electrical circuits and carry away heat. Outside electrolyte chip will be cooled and charged ions.
Dome project participants to develop prototypes architecture mikroserverov with liquid cooling and power system for a supercomputer that will handle the flow of data from a giant telescope. It is expected that the flow of data from the telescope, will exceed the total traffic on the Internet (!), Which also dictated by the high performance requirements. It is assumed that in the future computers with such processors will be used in other areas.
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