BLACKSBURG, Va., April 22 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Note to readers: This series of articles focuses on researchers whose work improves efficiency, addresses concerns, or offers alternative solutions to some of the pressing issues created by data centers.
The visuals of data centers can be arresting: enormous warehouses, several football fields long, sometimes backing up right against housing subdivisions.
But what's happening inside - not just the racks and racks of graphics processing units whirring and the cooling systems working to keep the temperature in check, but the math that underpins each process - are just as important in facilitating the massive needs of the ind...