its amazing the time and effort put into this board to make it absolutely reliable

The new linus tech tips

Interesting on all that high end kit there's minimal trace routing on the outer layers - everything disappears into a via to inner layers.

Yes, in every rack there's also a CPU removal tool (screwed to the front left side) it's SUN part no. 371-3418 and it looks (and is) as expensive as the rest of the machine.

Finally enough ram to run Google Chrome.

FYI. Fujitsu has a high tech PCB manufacturing and assembly plant in Germany in Munich and Augsburg. It is probably one of more advanced European manufacturers, with a lot of unique manufacturing capabilities and quality. They do manufacture a lot of servers, laptops, power supplies, network equipment and other equipment (including for other companies), so it is not just Japan. They do actually accept orders from others.

There’s a lot that goes into that cable, probably made using a microscope and ultrasonic welding. Then days of environmental and electrical tests. The materials used would have taken a lot of R&D too. They know that the cables will be a #1 point of failure, so they are always over engineered

The difference between this and Apple overpricing is this wasn't made by slave/servitude labor in sketchy work conditions, with sketchy parts, polluting everything around without any control.

You could still resell the cable to an audiophile for list price.

The cable for the SGI Origin 2000 is a NUMAlink cable. From what I can find, the Origin 2000 used a NUMAlink 2 cable, which had a peak bandwidth of 1.6GB/s.... In 1996! It was used in distributed shared memory clusters. Basically connecting units together and making sure they can maintain memory speeds as if it were all on the same board.

I am pretty sure my photoshop would be happy eating this much RAM

48:33 when you flip it over looks so beautiful. I'd love to cover it in clear epoxy as a table.

The thermal pads with the circles on the heatsinks are just a warranty measure, you can replace it with almost any thermal compound or tape.