AI helps HPC data centers keep a cool head

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Many people - especially digital natives - take the blessings of the ever-increasing digital transformation in all areas for granted and are happy to be able to access the accumulated knowledge of human civilization, to communicate, to educate themselves and to collaborate anywhere and at any time. Especially during the Corona crisis, the shift in communication to different digital channels made it possible to maintain educational opportunities, productivity and social contacts in the first place. Smart applications, comprehensively digitized companies , cities, and living spaces would not even be imaginable without the enormous computing power of modern high-power computing (HPC) centers.

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