heroic cooling

noun

heroic cooling

noun
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Techniques for dissipating high heat very quickly.

  • Plasma venturing beyond that is led into the divertor, where it strikes high-temperature materials with heroic cooling to dissipate the heat.2011, Francis Chen, An Indispensable Truth: How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet, page 287:
  • The power wall refers to the inability to significantly increase the clock frequency of a processor (CPU) without heroic cooling measures.2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy-Efficient Distributed Computing Systems:
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  • The heroic cooling methods used in the Cray 3 supercomputer to remove the heat generated by the computer's operation suggest that failure to reduce energy dissipation per gate operation would be a major limiting factor in future computer performance.2018, Dane Lee, Nanocomputing, page 109:

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