Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon

This week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity – and eventually put fresh fish on the table. Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for Norway's national …

[Pete 2]

POSIX compliant

> Sigma2 aims to reuse waste heat generated by the liquid cooled Cray EX4000 compute blades to warm water for local salmon farms

#include <spawn.h>

int posix_spawn(pid_t *restrict pid, const char *restrict path,

const posix_spawn_file_actions_t *restrict file_actions,

const posix_spawnattr_t *restrict attrp,

char *const argv[restrict],

char *const envp[restrict]);

[Richard Tobin]

Or depending on the difficulty of the problem...

s/raise/cook/

[Grunchy]

Tarsands

Another (old) idea: use the waste heat to harvest petroleum from the tarsands.

It’s an (old) idea.

[MachDiamond]

Re: Tarsands

"Another (old) idea: use the waste heat to harvest petroleum from the tarsands."

The tarsands are better left alone. Besides having a poor eROI, some patches have really nasty byproducts that aren't being dealt with properly. Just stored for tomorrow.

[frankvw]

Finally some sense

Brilliant, and (in my opinion) a typically Scandinavian solution. By and large I consider Scandinavians to be among the most sensible people in the world.

[Like a badger]

Re: Finally some sense

Well, begs the question why Norway are warming the water for a fish that they've successfully sea farmed for many decades. I presume there's some gain, perhaps growth rate or reproduction, but it all smells of fishy greenwash to me.

[MachDiamond]

Re: Finally some sense

"Well, begs the question why Norway are warming the water for a fish that they've successfully sea farmed for many decades. I presume there's some gain, perhaps growth rate or reproduction, but it all smells of fishy greenwash to me."

The next years' harvest are dependent on this year's hatchings. The more fishies there are to begin with the better the chances are that in a couple of years, there will be more to catch. I wouldn't be surprised if there's also selection of the fish coming back to reproduce for the largest with a thinning of the smallest so not only numbers, but weight climbs as well.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

Artificially intelligent salmon?

It sounds a bit fishy to me.

[Evil Scot]

Re: Artificially intelligent salmon?

The fish are fuel for the real intelligence compute cores. The Dolphins.

Please excuse me while a perform a double backwards somersault through a hoop, whilst whistling the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

[MachDiamond]

Re: Artificially intelligent salmon?

"It sounds a bit fishy to me."

Good thing you can't smell it, then.

[deadlockvictim]

Re: Artificially intelligent salmon?

My first thought was jumping straight for the pun too.

On a more serious note, hopefully the artificially raised water temperature won't have a deleterious effect on the biome being heated.