Upgrading A Supercomputer

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Upgrading A Supercomputer « Data Center Knowledge

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What’s it like to perform a processor upgrade on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers? In this video, Al Enger from Cray, Inc. walks through the upgrade process of the Kraken supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which holds the number three spot in the new Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Enger is upgrading Kraken’s quad-core AMD Opteron chips to Opterons with six cores. This video runs about 4 minutes.

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Did you guys notice that he's working without gloves or a mask on that Kraken?

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I remember someone in Fringe said that those people cannot work with gloves because parts are too small, thats how they got a fingerprint for the bad guy in that episode haha

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notice also how his workspace is quite inefficient, lots of space is wasted and unnecessary movement of the board is performed - next time they complain about their costs, being 'forced' to lay off employees, think of how much could have been saved by a more intelligent usage of their space & restructuring of these procedures

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Did you guys notice that he's working without gloves or a mask on that Kraken?

grounding yourself in such a room before starting is usually enough. i've never used gloves in my life and never had problems.
that aside what he dös is just an ordinary task. nothing fancy regarding supercomputing in there.

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i've never used gloves in my life and never had problems.

Hey thats interesting
Are you a computer professional? Is your work similar to what he's doing?