Comments on: Upgrading A Supercomputer

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:57:40 +0000

@Curious – you’ll notice the pad that the server s laying on is grounded in the corner, (running over the desk). Usually with those pads, there is also a connecting food pad. Either way, he’s grounded.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:57:23 +0000

@Kyle @Curious, people doing this kind of stuff for a living don’t wear wrist straps anymore. Wrist straps are for quick fixes when you can’t have the infrastructure for it. Datacenter raised floors are grounded, (the tiles have particles in them with specific resistance to let ESD dissipate, but not transmit mains power) most folks wear ESD disspipative shoes (almost all serious brands have them) or wear heel straps. This way is a whole lot less cumbersome. Of course the desks are also like this.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:19:48 +0000

@curious, that caught my eye too, you would expect someone working on a piece of machinery that expensive to have an ESD bracelet on. I suspect it was a dummy board or one that doesn’t work any more just to show us the process, in any case it was quite interesting.

By: Curious

Curious — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:08:22 +0000

I’m assuming they have anti static everything there but i was kind of suprised to see he wasn’t wearing a wrist strap. Not that I do when I work on a computer but if I was working on a super computer I’d take every precaution.

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By: Rich Miller

Rich Miller — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:42:40 +0000

Hi Paula. Thanks for the correction. I’ve corrected Al’s last name in the story and excerpt got the RSS feed. The video is from AMD, so they’ll need to fix that on their end.

By: Paula Lindsey

Paula Lindsey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:10:35 +0000

The Cray Site Engineer in the video is Al Enger, not Al Linger as depicted.