Aurora Supercomputer: All-Access

[@rackemstackemgame]

That's a lot of piping! Thanks for the tour!

[@jaredsabre8286]

How fast is this thing for video stabilization tasks?

[@Joemama555]

🤣

[@ErichToven]

Also slow down the pacing. The script isn't a one take race to the end. I feel like none of you wanted to make this video but are being forced to kicking and screaming. Edit: Wow its litterly in the video can you hear the subtext. "Get out we have work to go go go"

[@jfoseklw]

This is cool! I like seeing what a computer like this looks like from the inside

[@Kurdain]

That's an old sample they are using for the display version. :D CPU, GPU AND memory, network cards and system boards are all water cooled, there is zero air flow through these chassis; the switches are also all water cooled. I was the only person outside HPE that could break these blades down and rebuild from scratch with any upgrade, at least up to a year ago. Tried stabilizing the video, I have to crop so much of it to get the shake out that it looks far too zoomed in.

[@prashanthb6521]

Can you tell where the storage is located ? I didnt see any local SSDs.

[@davedemarle6601]

@@prashanthb6521 It has an auxiliary system, built out of Optane, that is tightly integrated and organized via DAOS.

[@wileamyp]

Will the Aurora cabinet doors stay open to get in some additional passive cooling, or will it be like Frontier when they're only gonna be opened for hardware maintenance?

[@Kurdain]

Zero reason for the doors to be open/removed other than it looks neat from a display perspective, everything in the entire system is water cooled, power supplies, blades, switches - everything - zero air flow in any device/system/chassis.

[@jasongauthier8567]

This system was ranked #2 on the Top 500 HPC list from Nov '23 with about half the system in function, very impressive!!!

[@wileamyp]

And that was only running at half capacity!

[@jackie299]

spent so much on the PC couldn't afford a marketing budget

[@akompsupport]

would be nice to have a steady cam algo to smooth out those shaky camera

[@SercanYegin]

My brain hurts while watching this video with all the camera shake and focus issues. I wish they would invest more on the video production for such a nice HPC system and a data center.

[@offmeds2nite]

Please use camera stabilization! This video really needs work.

[@shangreer]

It’s fine. Didn’t mommy ever tell ya, “if you ain’t got something good to say, shut the F up?” 😀

[@TK_Mo]

It's not the camera, it's a shortage of computing power for the editing process. Time is money! 😂🤣 😂

[@Tyln93]

SKYNET!!!

[@the69jimster]

can it play crysis ?

[@giray2529]

Not yet 😂

[@davedemarle6601]

The machine's GPUs have 7.2 million Ray Tracing Units which can be used for rendering, so maybe.

[@SebastianInsane]

It could be the solution to the optimization problem for Diablo immortal.

[@ErichToven]

Someone had to bend all that tubing and check it for leaks on hardware that expensive. My god that poor poor sole.

[@MusaCoskun]

Did you record this video with a hair dryer?

[@GeorgeWright-n2x]

I've got one of these in my basement.

[@prashanthb6521]

Why do you keep it in the basement ? I carry mine in my pocket......😂

[@swagger7]

Couldn't you get someone other than the janitor with epilepsy to run the cell phone video? ... DoE ... big bucks. Very cool facility though.

[@marcelogobello9757]

Sounds like propaganda 🤣

[@jamescarter8311]

I wish they'd stop forcing women into every part of the industry and directly discriminating against the men who actually designed and built these computers.

[@fabiolapuinka2047]

Awesome! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster