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7.3 million projects aim to reduce the carbon footprint of supercomputers and ″ data centers

7.3 million projects aim to reduce the carbon footprint of supercomputers and ″ data centers

Researchers from the Institute of Systems Engineering, Computers, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), in Porto, are part of a project funded by 7.3 million euros, which aims to reduce the carbon footprint of supercomputers and “data centers”.

In a statement, the Porto Institute explained on Monday that the project, titled “Sustainable HPC”, developed in partnership with the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI), wants to make supercomputers “more sustainable”.

Supercomputers are computers with a high capacity for processing data, capable of performing “millions of billions of mathematical operations” per second and solving complex problems in fields such as science and engineering.

However, this equipment requires special installations and cooling systems and consumes “tremendous amounts of electrical energy”.

In this sense, the project aims to develop an “energy management solution that promotes decarbonisation of machine operation”, which reduces energy consumption by 60% and expenses by up to 30%.

INESC TEC confirms: “This solution will provide a greener operation for advanced computing facilities and ‘data centers’ in the future”