1. Open Innovation and Collaboration
Dr. Erich Ruetsche
Business Development
IBM Research - Zurich
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3. The Eras of IBM Research: “The World Is Now Our Lab”
Radical Collaboration
Joint Projects
In-world Research,
IBM Divisions, Clients, Smarter Planet Research
Isolated Research Universities
’50s — ’90s
Hardware ’90s — ’00s
+ Software & Services
’00s …
+ Smarter Planet
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4. Evolution of IBM Research
Business & Societal
Challenges
Level of Collaboration
Client
Engagements
Services
Joint
Programs
Software
Corporate
Funded
Hardware
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5. Government
Industry
Academia
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7. CeBIT 2008 Prototype
future
ta centers of the
se
IBM Press Relea
ns in da
Intelligent u se of heat emissio from IBM's (NY
SE: IBM) Zurich
adefair scientist
s y the direct reuse db
e CeBIT 2008 tr a center achieve
ch 2008 — At th on emission dat to be
witzerland, 3 Mar neering concept
of a zero carb operating energy
an y, Rüschlikon, S e first time a pio lows three-qu arters of the IT powerful new k
ind of
Hannover, Germ ill present for th -efficient, but al erating costs. A
atory w ely energy overall op
Research Labor not only extrem ndly and lowers
he first prototype is his is envi ronmentally frie
of waste heat. T eat buildings. T n.
such uses as to h of this innovatio
red irected to on the chip is the basis
stem embedded ccording to Gartn
er Group
water cooling sy the IT industry. A ted
s a challenge to ual to that genera
e IT industry . At the same time, it pose ide emis sions, which is eq ta
Challenges in th precious resource obal carbon diox consumption of da
e yet increasingly for about 2% of gl worldwide energy ate the
Energy is an indi
spensabl
mmunications in
dustry accounts nfirms that the gy is used to oper
rmation and co y Natio nal Laboratory co megawat ts each. This ener
analysts, the info Lawrence Berkele er plants of 1000
world ov er. The US-based uivalent to 14 typical pow
by air traffic the KWh, roughly eq r service econom
y.
amounts to some 120 billion e backbone of ou dget on data cent
er
centers co nstitute th and 50% of their total IT bu
nd the world that spend between 25 possible to channe
l this
data centers arou panies currently w, it has not been s are
increasing. Com s. But until no ge potential saving
nsumption of data centers is zed electr ical heating system the environment, meaning that hu
And the energy co loped into oversi mply dissipated in
to
deed, data centers have deve is waste heat is si
operations. In . Instead, th
ct supply of heat
energy to serve as a dire t
y, they will presen
no t being realized. efair in H annover, German te
Zurich CeBIT 2008 trad ly reusing its was
lution from IBM Research - want to ch ange this. At the ro carbon footprint by direct that is
Technological so y in Zurich now that achieves a ze -cooling system
MR esearch Laborator ergy-effi cient data center ch is a new kind of water
Scientists at the IB ept of a highly en t, the basis of whi
th e pioneering conc ve energy and cooling circui
for the first time gned an innovati ply for
heat. The rese archers have desi rectly on the chip
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g pools etc. or sim
oling is need ed the most — di ildings, swimmin that the temperatu
re of
applied where co ip for heating bu rect use of heat is
heat ge nerated by the ch t for the di
model is to reuse rtant requiremen
ro-em ission data center er, the most impo orks, is about 50
°C.
The goal of the ze network. Howev icipal heating netw
unicipal heating mous energy-sav
ing
conducting the he
at into a m , for modern mun alone has an enor
above a certain threshold, which air. This tude.
the waste heat be times better than l orders of magni
hich can co nduct heat 4000 oling ef ficiency by severa
ers used water, w to improve the co
is, IBM research chip, rese archers were able
To accomplish th er cooling on the
potential. B ut integrating wat
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8. Collaboration with ETH in 2009 (FOAK)
se
IBM Press Relea d
lan to build new kin
IBM and ETH Zurich unveil p
supercomputer
of water-cooled d carbon-dioxide
emissions by up to
85%
ption by 40% an
te heat. Aims to cut energy consum the Swiss Feder
al
irect reuse of was ware computing, -
D hieve energy-a build a first-of-a
09— In an effort to ac day ann ounced plans to The
and, June 23, 20 (NYSE: IBM) to ersity buildings.
Zurich, Switzerl (ETH), and IBM ose excess heat for the univ by up to
nology Zurich l directly repurp nt of the system
Institute of Tech mputer that wil e carbon footpri
kind water-coole
d superco to decrease th em using today’s
, dubbed Aqu asar, is expected mpared to a similar syst
innovative system CO2 per year, co
ed to save up to 30 tons of
85% and estimat
ies.1 In fact, up to 50%
cooling technolog a stagge ring undertaking. used by
energy-efficient is ion today is not ca
ng systems and data centers energy consumpt tuation
Making computi data center ’s carb
on footprint or overheating—a si
age air-cooled ep the processors from
percent of an aver ing systems to ke ive.
ing the necessary cool a holistic perspect
compu ting but by power g at ener gy efficiency from rd
timal when lookin y. We cannot affo
that is far from op facing in the 21st centur alone,”
e humanity will be d and performance
ly the nu mber one challeng n of co mputational spee Emerging
“Energy is arguab sed on the criterio rmodynamics in
co mputer systems ba head of the L aboratory of The must be high perf
ormance
anymore to design s of ETH Zurich, t. “The new target
Poulikako y projec
explains Prof. Dr. is interdisciplinar liquid cooling.”
lead investigator of th d data centers. This means
Technologies and supercomputers an ter, which will be
and low net po wer consumption ar—th e new supercompu
heat reuse, Aquas ion by
system and direct energy consumpt
ve water-cooling 2010, w ill reduce overall e field of
With an innovati start operation in M scientists in th
H Zurich and is planned to arch collaborat ion of ETH and IB rect energy re-use
”
located at the ET ng-term joint rese ta centers with di
is based on lo ncept for “water-c
ooled da
40%. The system as well as on a co
ooling,
chip-level water-c M’s Zurich Lab. a peak
by scientists at IB rack and will have
advanced deCente r® servers in one
t of two IBM Bla
supercom puter will consis
The water-cooled raflops.2 ell as
ce of about 10 Te r processor, as w
performan
high-performan ce liquid cooler pe and disconnected
with a microscale each blad e to be connected
will be equipped ons, which allow
Each of the blades orks and connecti
8 pipeline netw
input and output .
stem (see image) and its heat-
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9. SuperMUC at Leibniz-Rechenzentrum 2012
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10. EKZ and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
One Click EV Charging
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11. University of Aberdeen
Molecular structure determination using AFM
OCTOBER 2010 VOL 2 NO 10
www.nature.com/naturechemistry
TOTAL SYNTHESIS
Four of a kind
OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION
Better through blocking
WATER-OXIDATION CATALYSIS
Nanotubes provide stability
Single-molecule mug shot
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12. EPFL
Eliminating Power Consumption in Standby Mode
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13. EPFL and ETH Zurich
Tomorrow’s 3D Microchips: Less Energy, Less Heat
Cores: the cores
are no longer side Channels: as thin as a human
by side, but hair, the channels fill with the
stacked vertically coolant liquid and traverse the
3D chip to maintain an operating
temperature
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