World's second fastest computer

Man, I just geeked out hardcore...

Wow, that's a lot of hard drives...

Great video!

Does anyone want to re-build this thing and try Ubuntu on it? If so, my fees will be extraordinarily reasonable; just provide the hardware, some food and coffee, and a well-ventilated room for a day or so.

Oh, and a trampoline.

Wow, that's a lot of hard drives...

Those are SSDs - solid state drives. They cost a lot more than hard drives.

Thanks for this post. My friend living near the Eiffel Tower may need to look into this. However, I am skeptical at drug companies and their promises. I wonder if this will be another one of those "lifetime treatments" or cures

Those are SSDs - solid state drives. They cost a lot more than hard drives.

Ans, they do not have as high of capacity as conventional drives although this is changing. Hence all the drives, which can actually make seek/write times faster, due to using RAID. One wonders what type / how many RAID SATA (I assume not SAS) controllers are in that rig.

Is that a critical error at time marker 2:27 I see?

Marty: Well spotted!

Indeed, since they never mention anything about crashes I assume they are working in full Windows Denialism Mode. (WDM) so we have to take this whole thing with a grain of salt.

Did they do a defrag? Never defrag an SSD. Unless you want to wear it out for no performance gain.

aporeticus: This is why they should do this with Linux. There is no defrag in Linux.