I Tried to Break a Million Dollar Computer - IBM Z16 Facility Tour!
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Published 2022-04-05
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IBM invited us to do a facility tour showing off the mainframes they sell to high frequency trading customers and the like. You want to see wacky, custom hardware? This is it!
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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
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Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 geni.us/PgGWp
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:16 What's a Z16?
1:55 Cooling
3:00 Power
3:40 Compute
6:00 Nutty Socket
9:18 Crazy VRMs
11:24 RAM like you've never seen it before
12:50 Cache work weird
15:00 now THIS is networking!
19:30 Welcome to the Patch Room
21:15 "my wife unit"
21:42 What's this for?
22:15 Price $$
23:45 Outro
All Comments (21)
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Linus: Tries to break super computer Super computer: Breaks Linus’s voice
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I love how everything is redundant, they probably had a 2nd youtuber on site just in case Linus failed.
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I have come full circle. Watching Linus in 2014 made me want to study computer engineering, I got a job at IBM, and now Linus is reviewing an IBM mainframe. Hopefully LTT can continue to inspire generations of engineers for years to come!
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Worked on IBM mainframes for 25 years, starting in 1980. Started as COBOL programmer, ended as systems programmer (sysadmin in unix terms). My last 16 working years were on AIX/Linux due to architecture switches in the IT departments I was working. I was never able to fully explain the awsomeness of IBM mainframes to my new colleagues. I think Linus succeeded.....
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This is the type of enterprise content I want to see. Huge computers, weird architectures, and crazy custom solutions in the name of efficiency.
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The fact that serious big tech companies will let Linus refer their tech as "doohickey majigs that lines up with the dots on the thing", is something that will always make me laugh.
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Literally geeking! I work for IBM Research on chip integration and this video played in a meeting today. I was like no way they got Linus! Awesome exposure!
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The fact that you're in there hands-on is amazing. All of this would usually be some controlled PR commercial, but here you are hanging with the actual tech guys and FILMING the whole thing in there. Props to the whole crew, editors and all.Also the transitions chef's kiss
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Can we all take a second to applaud the audio team on this video? The background is clearly, very noisy, and the LMG team did an excellent job (probably in post) getting Linus' voice to carry and suppressing the background noise. Can't imagine that was easy
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Shout-out to the audio engineers on this video. I wouldn't imagine a server testing facility with Linus having to nearly scream is an ideal environment for quality sound 😂
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Linus: "Can I hold one?" IBM Tech: "Uhh yeah, I don't see why not?" Audience: gasp "Have you never watched..." 𝓜𝓮: "𝓓𝓻𝓸𝓹 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓮𝓵𝓾𝓶... 𝓓𝓻𝓸𝓹 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓮𝓵𝓾𝓶... 𝓓𝓻𝓸𝓹 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓮𝓵𝓾𝓶"
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This was one of the best LTT videos in a while (and that’s saying something). Working for a large international financial corporation in IT I have passing knowledge of our z system mainframe systems and z/Linux systems. We push our backups a lot further than 100km though. It’s really awesome to see this new hardware that will be the future of my industry.
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Linus thinks they're letting him mess around for a video, little did he know, this was an essential part of server validation
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The fact that the screwdriver at 14:50 kept moving after he stopped it really shows how good he is at what he's known for.
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The director of Deloitte's Mainframe and Cloud modernization department in Brussels once showed me how to administer a zOS with Python. Frankly I was surprised. Any UNIX/LINUX admin would be able to do it. The power of the mainframe and the tools of the modern developer. Major strong combination.
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14:54 This cut feels like a cliffhanger... did the screwdriver end up rolling into the server post-cut? 😅
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I spent the last few years working on the Telum chip design and it's so fucking cool to see Linus nerd out over our system! Thank you for coming Linus, cheers! :)
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as a IBM technician, glad to see Linus finally tackling enterprise servers
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I honestly hope this video does well, because I found this extremely interesting. Hearing how custom hardware is changed to solve specific problems. It's fascinating and I would love to see more content like this.
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This level of advanced technology is so cool to get to see, just quietly being the literal backbone of our modern society
