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Why solar wind does not cool down as fast as expected? Simulating the solar wind. ESA's Solar Orbiter mission. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Solar wind is a constant stream of plasma and particles emanating from the sun. This stream of energized and charged particles emanating from the sun travels at speeds as high as 900 km/s and a temperature of 1 million degrees (Celsius). These ejections significantly impact the conditions of our solar system and constantly hit the Earth. It has long puzzled scientists: why the bursts of hot gas from the sun do not cool down as fast as expected?

Scientists have long questioned why the bursts of hot gas from the Sun do not cool down as fast as expected, and have now used a supercomputer to find out.

The new supercomputer will be built and powered using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer, deliver 10 petabytes of storage with over 300GB/s of read/write performance speeds, use 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors and contain 352 Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs for HPC and AI workloads. Furthermore, the system will be housed in a data centre designed to increase sustainability and reduce energy consumption, according to HPE. The new system will have liquid-cooling capabilities to increase energy efficiency and power density by transferring heat generated by the new supercomputer with a liquid-cooled process...

The company's technology will help the project in its quest to solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, including the nature of dark matter and understanding the basic building blocks of galaxies and solar systems. The University of Cambridge has been kitted out with over 400 PowerEdge C6520 servers, complete with the recently announced 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, for use in its Cambridge Service for Data Driven Discovery (CSD3) system. CSD3 will also deploy over 80 PowerEdge XE8545 servers which are configured with 3rd Generation AMD Epyc processors and Nvidia A100 Tenso...