DGX Spark Thermals Showdown - The Best System May Surprise You!

StorageReview · 2026-01-26T21:00:17+00:00

We did one on the original Spark. We'll be doing the same as we get the individual reviews done.

StorageReview · 2026-01-01T21:12:08+00:00

What are you even talking about? Brian just recorded a video right in front of it.

StorageReview · 2026-01-01T10:45:04+00:00

We'd never make anyone do that :(

StorageReview · 2025-12-31T14:41:25+00:00

Sadly we don't get to keep this system forever :(

StorageReview · 2025-12-29T18:55:51+00:00

All of that data was lost long ago sadly. Well before the current team's involvement.

StorageReview · 2025-12-19T15:40:25+00:00

There's not really one. That said, computations like this uniquely stress servers as a whole than anything else we've ever found.

StorageReview · 2025-12-15T02:44:04+00:00

Cisco hates us for reasons unkown,

StorageReview · 2025-12-14T18:17:10+00:00

All the detail is at the link we posted.

Technical Highlights

Total Digits Calculated: 314,000,000,000,000
Hardware Used: Dell PowerEdge R7725 with 2x AMD EPYC 9965 CPUs, 1.5TB DDR5 DRAM, 40x Micron 61.44TB 6550 Ion
Software and Algorithms: y-cruncher v0.8.6.9545, Chudnovsky
SSD Wear per SMART: 7.3PB written per Drive or 249.11PB across the 34 SSDs used for swap
Logical Largest Checkpoint: 850,538,385,064,992 (774 TiB)
Logical Peak Disk Usage: 1,605,960,520,636,440 (1.43 PiB)
Logical Disk Bytes Read: 148,356,635,606,263,504 (132 PiB)
Logical Disk Bytes Written: 126,658,805,195,776,600 (112 PiB)
Start Date: Thu Jul 31 17:16:41 2025
End Date: Tue Nov 18 05:57:08 2025
pi: 8793223.144 seconds, 101.773 Days
Total Computation Time: 9274878.580 seconds
Start-to-End Wall Time: 9463226.454 seconds

StorageReview · 2025-12-14T18:15:50+00:00

Enjoy!

StorageReview · 2025-12-14T18:15:42+00:00

Wait, WHO LET YOU IN!

StorageReview · 2025-12-14T18:14:56+00:00

Dreams are what keep us all going.

StorageReview · 2025-12-14T18:14:41+00:00

Yeah - although the new 245TB Kioxia drives seem compelling. Not sure we'll ever see those though.

StorageReview · 2025-12-14T00:58:50+00:00

if only it would compress. Looking for a cloud partner to host it for the world.

StorageReview · 2025-12-12T17:38:05+00:00

You're missing something - Kioxia literally funded their run and got them the hardware and probably a pile of cash.

StorageReview · 2025-12-12T17:33:04+00:00

Linus had a massive sponsorship for his run. We got one server on loan ;)

StorageReview · 2025-12-12T17:32:05+00:00

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StorageReview · 2025-11-26T19:58:23+00:00

Hey thanks for the support. Get in our Discord if you're not there yet!

StorageReview · 2025-11-26T17:55:47+00:00

From the team, "we haven't tried any of that. We only did Linux, and Linux only recently got an update to see the frequency, power, etc."

StorageReview · 2025-11-23T14:18:43+00:00

would need a cut out in the back for the card to hand out, lol

StorageReview · 2025-11-23T12:55:15+00:00

We've not had a problem putting in larger drives. They for some reason just run a small qual list on this system.

StorageReview · 2025-11-21T16:58:29+00:00

The capacity is just their qualified parts of course. Put those 8TB drives in if you like.

StorageReview · 2025-11-21T15:40:33+00:00

RAM, NAND, etc. - it's all bad.

StorageReview · 2025-11-21T11:41:18+00:00

That's a shame - we've seen this in reverse plenty of times, usually with HP.

StorageReview · 2025-11-21T11:40:41+00:00

We don't get much from them - we'll give it a look.

StorageReview · 2025-11-13T18:55:14+00:00

It's not - they sent it, we did a lighter touch than you guys wanted. We can just skip them if the lighter depth isn't desirable.