User:FLG Paris/Computing heater
Principles
[edit]The computing heater reuses the waste heat generated by embedded microprocessors[1] to heat buildings[2],[3].
This system is developed by the French company Qarnot computing. It is a distributed alternative to traditional data centers[4] that enables to reuse the IT heat waste.
The computing power of the heaters is used by companies to make batch computing that heats buildings. In 2020, 1,500 computers were deployed in social housings and offices in France.
Using the same principle, the company has launched digital boilers in 2019. They also embed microprocessors and the waste heat is recovered to heat water[5].
The heaters gather thousands of cores particularly adapted to edge computing. The computation can be made for artificial intelligence, machine learning, Monte-Carlo simulation, CFD, big data or even 3D animation.
Fight against energy precariousness and digital gap
[edit]By taking over the electricity invoice of the tenants[6] equipped with computing heaters, Qarnot enabled 300 households to benefit from free heating in 2020. A wifi connector is also embedded in the heater.
Ecological benefit
[edit]The computing heaters enable to reduce the energy consumption and the carbon footprint of the computation and the heating. The French governement has acknowledged the ecological benefit of the heaters in 2019[7].
Awards
[edit]- 2018: Climate Change Innovator Award during CES[8] in Las Vegas
- 2018: European Commission “Smarter with Cyber”[9]
- 2019: Solar Impulse Foundation: 1,000 solutions to fight climate change[10]
- 2019 : Métropole du Grand Paris award, “Digital and environment” category[11]
- 2020: Let's go France/PwC - "France and the challenge of new services" - Winner 2020[12]
- 2020: Stop Energy Exclusion, winner Ile-de-France[13]
Notes et références
[edit]- ^ European Patent Office, Radiateur électrique utilisant des processeurs de calcul comme source chaude, 2010 https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=FR&NR=2954971B1&KC=B1&FT=D
- ^ Le Figaro, Un «ordinateur-radiateur» pour se chauffer, 2013 http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2013/07/11/01008-20130711ARTFIG00543-un-ordinateur-radiateur-pour-se-chauffer.php
- ^ JDD, Le. "Qarnot Computing : des bâtiments chauffés par la chaleur des ordinateurs". lejdd.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ J. Velkova, Data that warms: Waste heat, infrastructural convergence and the computation traffic commodity, 2016 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951716684144
- ^ "Ces chaudières qui carburent au «fuel» numérique". Techniques de l'Ingénieur (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ "Le chauffage écologique et gratuit : Qarnot y est parvenu". www.bearingpoint.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ "Arrêté du 18 avril 2019 relatif à l'agrément des modalités de prise en compte des systèmes Qrad de chauffage par recyclage de la chaleur fatale informatique dans la réglementation thermique 2012 - Légifrance". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ "[Press Release] CES 2018: Qarnot winner of the Eureka Park Climate Change Innovators Award". Qarnot Blog. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ storejo (2018-06-18). "10 SME Instrument innovators awarded at P&G Brussels Innovation Center". EASME - European Commission. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ Impulse, Solar. "QH-1 - Solar Impulse Efficient Solution". solarimpulse.com. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ "La Métropole du Grand Paris soutient l'innovation !". Métropole du Grand Paris (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ "Trophées #LetsgoFrance 2020 - Concours d'entrepreneurs". #LetsgoFrance (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ "ESS et société, Enjeux et débats". www.ess-et-societe.net. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
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