Meaning of heroic cooling | Babel Free

Definitions

Techniques for dissipating high heat very quickly.

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Examples

“Plasma venturing beyond that is led into the divertor, where it strikes high-temperature materials with heroic cooling to dissipate the heat.”

“The power wall refers to the inability to significantly increase the clock frequency of a processor (CPU) without heroic cooling measures.”

“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.”

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