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Description: SCP-866 is a ████ Series Supercomputer constructed in 20██. Its anomalous properties were discovered when the system proved capable of running computation jobs with more processors than physically available. Subsequent attempts to determine the reason for this behavior have failed, but have caused █ university employees to disappear. See Addendum 1.1a for details. Foundation operatives determined the system has non-euclidian geometry in the computation node rack topology, possibly a polydimensional n-hypercube structure. This however does not account for the reason for the anomalous computations, only for their speed. An attempt to remove SCP-866 from the power supply has resulted in immediate [DATA EXPUNGED] resulting in ██ displacements and disappearances, including the entire recovery team. See [REDACTED] for additional information. In situ containment measures have been devised.
Addendum 1: SCP-866 has been successfully used by Foundation staff for large-scale simulations and computations. At this time, the limit, if any, to SCP-866 computational capacity is not known. Access to the machine can be made remotely by anyone possessing a student or staff account for the ████████ University System. Addition of a [REDACTED] prevents non-Foundation access.
Addendum 1.1a: █ of the university employees have since been discovered. Prof.
████ has been found in the building's basement by janitorial staff. Analysis of the remains has shown that his death occurred roughly at the same time as the attempt to remove SCP-866 from the power supply. He was found embe[REDACTED]oom wall.
Position of the body suggests Prof. ████ was initially alive while in the basement, the words "[illegible] [illegible] died to a rounding error" were written in his own blood. Radar scans of the building's concrete walls are ongoing, but have failed to find anything of note. Research assistant Dr. ████ has been found in Lagrangian point L3 through unrelated observation regarding [REDACTED].
Addendum 2: An analysis of currently running jobs shows that less than 5% of tasks are the result of foundation personnel. This value could not be increased through an increase in jobs submitted, suggesting non-linear relation between job size and machine resources. Attempts to identify the nature of the other jobs has proven so far unsuccessful. Largest observed jobs up to date, still running, are the "TSTWRLD1" to "TSTWRLD4" series submitted by "ao000002" and taking 20% of total machine resources each. Further analysis required.
Addendum 3: Log recovered after attempt to remove from power supply failed.
sysstat@███>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
sysstat@███>0x1c0005c2 in Kernel02 () at TSTWRLD2.c:34525 sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>Restart from checkpoint attempted sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>Program restart successful sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>Loading checkpoint data..................
sysstat@███>......................................................
sysstat@███>......................................................
sysstat@███>Checkpoint data succesfully loaded sysstat@███>CRC check in progress sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>CRC complete sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>889 YB data corrupted sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>Error correction in progress.............
sysstat@███>.....................................................
sysstat@███>.....................................................
sysstat@███>.....................................................
sysstat@███>456 YB data salvaged sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>Deleting unsalvageable data sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>...
sysstat@███>Continuing simulation sysstat@███>_ Addendum 4:Investigation Log of TSTWRLD2 program Dr. █████ Report Log.
1.10.20██ Attempt to profile TSTWRLD2 application failed.
3.11.20██ Attempt to assess resources used by TSTWRLD2 failed.
15.11.20██ Attempt to analyze parallel communication of TSTWRLD2 succeeded 16.11.20██ Attempt to store communication pattern failed due to lack of ex 21.11.20██ Attempt to sample communication succeeded.
5. 1.20██ Attempt to analyze samples complicated by large interdependency 13.10.20██ Attempt to use supercomputer resources for exponential solution 24.11.20██ Attempt to prove communication hypothesis failed. Insufficient 25.11.20██ Request permission to intercept and modify internal application Exp. will try to change the array index where city of [REDACTED] is stored 25.11.20██ Permission received. Experiment completed. Analyzing results.
26.11.20██ Investigation terminated by order or [REDACTED]. Experiments di Satellites detected a large structure identified as a cube with the volume containing the city of [REDACTED], leaving orbit.
28.11.20██ Investigation revealed a possible rounding error in Dr. █████ p Update Activity logs have recorded the following output: TSTWRLD1 simulation complete.
TSTWRLD2 STEP 1 048 523 /1 048 576 TSTWRLD3 STEP 1 048 543 /1 048 576 TSTWRLD4 STEP 1 048 543 /1 048 576 Further investigation required. Priority [REDACTED].
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