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Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card

Summary I’ve discovered a voltage fault injection vulnerability on the GA100 die, allowing an operator to blow arbitrary fuses. Utilizing this vulnerability, I’ve converted my CMP 170HX 8GB card into what is effectively an A100-80G! Further, my unlocked cards actually perform ~1.2x faster than a retail A100 by having all functional SMs enabled (~120-126, die-lottery dependent), rather than the yield-safe 108 SMs NVIDIA chose for all production A100 cards. Finally, CMP-disabled features like NVLi...

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