At the entrance to the room in North Austin that houses the biggest and newest supercomputer in Texas, there is an obvious sign of what to expect inside — a box full of earplugs. The computer called Stampede is loud. VERY LOUD. The noise comes partly from more than 6,000 computer servers working away in a tight space, but mostly it comes from the huge cooling system that is operating at full roar to keep those servers and other machines in this computer cluster from overheating. Some employees at the Texas Advanced Computing Center — the supercomputing research arm of the University of Texas — wear noise-cancelling headphones while they work in the computer room. Stampede,...
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