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I wonder who buys these. Crypto miners? My institution would make it nearly impossible to buy a secondhand supercomputer.
Recyclers.
I wonder what the point of liquid cooling such a system was. Were they pressed for space?
Also, likely they had infrastructure available, from the nuclear power they use.
I wonder who buys these. Crypto miners? My institution would make it nearly impossible to buy a secondhand supercomputer.
It has a peak compute of 5.34 petaflops, 313TB of memory, and gobbles 1.7MW.
I wonder what the point of liquid cooling such a system was. Were they pressed for space?
Built in a bunker under a mountain, so reduced airflow, plus need to hide heat signatures from outside surveillance? Also, likely they had infrastructure available, from the nuclear power they use.
I wonder what the point of liquid cooling such a system was. Were they pressed for space?
Built in a bunker under a mountain, so reduced airflow, plus need to hide heat signatures from outside surveillance? Also, likely they had infrastructure available, from the nuclear power they use.
I wonder who buys these. Crypto miners? My institution would make it nearly impossible to buy a secondhand supercomputer.
There's a whole sub-industry of people bidding on government auctions in order to part out the stuff. I'd be pretty surprised if the whole cluster got reassembled. But people on a budget will buy those compute nodes, someone trying to keep their legacy IB network will snap up those switches, the racks, etc.
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There's a whole sub-industry of people bidding on government auctions in order to part out the stuff. I'd be pretty surprised if the whole cluster got reassembled. But people on a budget will buy those compute nodes, someone trying to keep their legacy IB network will snap up those switches, the racks, etc.
r/homelab will have a field-day getting those nodes up, some people will want just one for practicality, some people will want at least a couple and a IB switch just for the novelty of it.