KIWI BOFFINS have worked out that they can speed up servers by placing them on a slow turning disk.

Scientists from the University of Waikikamookau say that a low centrifugal force seems to enable chips to process information sometimes up to 10 per cent faster.

Professor Peter Williams said his team was surprised by the result and has two possible explanations as to why it works. The first was that rotation also helps cool servers down, which makes them slightly more efficient. However the efficiency improved even more when the server was slightly heated with a gas fire.

"This was dangerous as some of the backs of the servers melted, but we were able to prove that cooling was not the cause of the gain in efficiency," Williams said.

His theory is that centrifugal force somehow caused a gravity pull that drove energy through the various parts of the chip a fraction faster.

"If you slapped a pile of wet clay on a potter’s wheel you would get a splat of water and clay everywhere… it is like that only with electricity," he said.

Speed seems to be important too. Too slow and there is no improvement in the chip… too fast and the server is spun into bits. Williams said that 33rpm, the speed of an old record player, was just about right.

"The biggest problem is how to spin the chips in the box without taking up too much room. In the lab we just put the entire box on some old pottery wheels and hung the cables in the air… you can’t do that in a normal server room," he said.

In an April 1 press release, the university said it planned to approach Intel with a prototype server chip that rotates slowly in the box. "We think Intel might go for a Sheesh Kebab chip," he said.

Source: The Inquirer

Hmmm... Well, at least they're trying to methods of creating better performance. Maybe with this "breakthrough", something may turn up that WILL become a major breakthrough and help make computers even faster than they already are.

HAHAHAHAH thats so funny now if only they could get over that whole electrons have virtualy no mass so the only force stronge enough to effect them is a black hole thing.... LOL

Yeah, but technically, you wouldn't need any rotation or force to make 'em better, would you?
I love the whole electrons idea, using their spin to make binary data and everything.
Anyway, I don't quite understand the example to clarify why rotation makes the chips faster : "If you slapped a pile of wet clay on a potter’s wheel you would get a splat of water and clay everywhere… it is like that only with electricity"
Maybe someone could explain that in other words for me, because I don't quite understand that one...

They are saying that the spinning couses the electricity to go through the chips faster. Its not possible becouse electricity has no weight. Its an April 1st Joke

im gonna leave the designing and planning to da experts and just buy the damn thing.