This World Record took YEARS (and a Million dollars..)

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:47 How did we get here?
2:28 The hardware
5:07 Looking at the compute node
6:52 Some WEKA trickery was needed
8:35 We gotta tune it
9:42 How fast does she go
10:40 Survey says, very fast
11:58 KIOXIA SSDs ROCK
12:45 y-cruncher go time
14:30 Back to August 1, 2024
16:43 Let's look at some logs
17:30 How long will the record be safe for?
17:52 Linus with the real talk
18:04 It's all about the journey
18:55 Outro