To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT engineers are tapping into an unconventional source: the air. They developed a new atmospheric water harvester and showed that it efficiently captures water vapor and produces safe drinking water across a range of relative humidities, including dry desert air.

Fifth place in the international ‘Green 500’ rankings

142,656 processor cores, 108 GPUs, AMD processors from the latest ‘Turin’ generation and an IBM Spectrum Scale file system with five petabytes of storage capacity: these are the outstanding specifications of ‘Otus’, Paderborn University’s new supercomputer. Even before it is officially put into use in the third quarter of this year, it is already breaking records: at ISC in Hamburg, the international trade fair for high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence, data analytics and quantum computing, the system was placed fifth in the ‘Green 500’ list of the world's most efficient computing systems. The ‘Green 500’ and ‘Top 500’ ranking lists serve as the benchmark for science and IT specialists. Whilst the ‘Top 500’ looks at speed alone, the ‘Green 500’ examines speed in relation to electrical power consumption. This enables energy efficiency to be measured.