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My company back then bought one of those around that time. It was used to run large EDA software jobs. On one beautiful day during the weekend, only a two week
by tverbeure 7y ago
My company back then bought one of those around that time. It was used to run large EDA software jobs.
On one beautiful day during the weekend, only a two weeks after delivery, our system admin noticed that the machine went offline. Logging in remotely didn’t work at all. No ping either.
He drove to work and ... the machine was gone.
Thieves had used a crane to lift it out of the building through a window onto a truck.
Sun told him that this wasn’t the first time such a thing had happened and that somewhere in the chain from order to delivery, an insider tipped off the thieves about where to find the latest.
- selectodude 7y agoI'm curious where the black market for something like that would even come from?
- cr0sh 7y agoBack then, smaller nation-states wanting to do nuclear device simulation and the like would be my guess. Basically, countries that were restricted in some manner on gaining large amounts of parallel processing compute power for such simulations.
- tverbeure 7y agoMy money is on breaking it up and sell it for components. The 256 GB in server grade RAM alone cost a fortune.