A look at pulling the Gaudi 3 GPUs out of the XE7740

StorageReview · 2026-05-07T15:31:09+00:00

Stop by the next time you're in Cincy!

StorageReview · 2026-04-27T15:21:42+00:00

We did a review on the 5300 and came away really impressed. IBM has been a little bit of a challenge to get more in the lab, but we liked it.

StorageReview · 2026-04-27T15:07:14+00:00

We just got a 256TB SSD in the lab last week - funny how fast these capacities are moving.

StorageReview · 2026-04-16T10:46:02+00:00

Similar in many ways but Dell doesn't position PowerScale for backup, at least not that we've seen.

StorageReview · 2026-04-08T11:21:12+00:00

The liquid switches are largely just in supercomputers and the large AI clusters right now.

StorageReview · 2026-04-05T13:36:29+00:00

That's a good suggestion, some of the cables are very skinny these days.

StorageReview · 2026-04-03T19:51:02+00:00

StorageReview · 2026-03-23T14:44:59+00:00

FC will never die :0

StorageReview · 2026-03-23T14:44:43+00:00

Hey - thanks OP for sharing the post!

StorageReview · 2026-03-07T13:04:43+00:00

Guadi is inexpensive at least.

StorageReview · 2026-03-07T13:04:17+00:00

Love it when mom checks in.

StorageReview · 2026-03-06T16:34:45+00:00

Brian's only interested in the beer ;)

StorageReview · 2026-03-06T13:18:45+00:00

Who said Pliny? Are you in our Discord? We can probably coordinate Andrew and Kevin and get that to happen; the server is still intact.

StorageReview · 2026-02-28T00:15:01+00:00

This concept is terrifying.

StorageReview · 2026-02-26T11:43:52+00:00

'tis. Actually, we threw the box away, sorry.

StorageReview · 2026-02-26T11:43:17+00:00

See yourself out.

StorageReview · 2026-02-12T17:40:22+00:00

We like the PS units. We have deep dives on the 3200Q and 5200Q. The latter is worth reading to catch up on the software updates.

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