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Too Much Gold Delays World's Fastest Supercomputer
Nerval's Lobster writes "The fastest supercomputer in the world, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 'Titan,' has been delayed because an excess of gold on its motherboard connectors has prevented it from working properly. Titan was originally turned on last October and climbed to the top of the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers shortly thereafter. Problems with Titan were first discovered in February, when the supercomputer just missed its stability requirement. At that time, the problems with the connectors were isolated as the culprit, and ORNL decided to take some of Titan's 200 cabinets offline and ship their motherboards back to the manufacturer, Cray, for repairs. The connectors affected the ability of the GPUs in the system to talk to the main processors. Oak Ridge Today's John Huotari noted the problem was due to too much gold mixed in with the solder."
Just give it to me and I'll get rid off the excess gold
...that thing plays a sweet game of minesweeper.
They realized that it had too much gold when they noticed its name was showing as "Titan, of the Shattered Sun"...
Too much gold never slowed down Mr. T. I pity the fool.
... I assumed everybody knew by now you should always go with Monster Cables ! ...or maybe they didn't run them in properly ?
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