> It took us fifteen years and three supercomputers to MacGyver a system for the gate on Earth Samantha Carter
I was just thinking how much of deep space radio telemetry this super computer must have seen.
Cheyenne Super Computer Auction
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#32>Components of the Cheyenne Supercomputer Installed Configuration: SGI ICE™ XA. E-Cells: 14 units weighing 1500 lbs. each. E-Racks: 28 units, all water-cooled Nodes: 4,032 dual socket units configured as quad-node blades Processors: 8,064 units of E5-2697v4 (18-core, 2.3 GHz base frequency, Turbo up to 3.6GHz, 145W TDP) Total Cores: 145,152 Memory: DDR4-2400 ECC single-rank, 64 GB per node, with 3 High Memory E-Cells…
Given that the individual nodes are just x86_64 Xeons and run linux... it would be interesting to part it out for sale as individual, but functional, nodes to people. There are a lot of people would like to have a ~2016 era watercooled 1U server from a supercomputer that was once near the top of the Top500 just to show to people. Get little commemorative plaques for each one and sell for $200 each or so. edit: it see…
The individual servers are not watercooled. The compute racks are air-cooled; the adjacent cooling racks then exchange that heat using the building's chilled water. It's the rack as a whole that is watercooled. If you extract a single node, you won't get any of that. As the other commenters also point out, these are blades; you can't run an individual node by itself.
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#33It'd be great if this could end up in the hands of some group like the Living Computers Museum.
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#34For those curious, Cheyenne is a supercomputer from 2016/2017 that launched on the 20th spot in the top500 super computers. It was decommissioned in 2023 after pandemic lead to a two year operation extension. It has a peak compute of 5.34 petaflops, 313TB of memory, and gobbles 1.7MW.
Aw man... I was going to use it for my homelab but that's 1696320W more than I can supply. Well... maybe if I use two plugs instead of one...
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#35Is this what they used to run the stargate?
This is from Cheyenne, Wyoming, not Cheyenne Mountain (in Colorado Springs).
Re: Cheyenne Super Computer Auction
#36For those curious, Cheyenne is a supercomputer from 2016/2017 that launched on the 20th spot in the top500 super computers. It was decommissioned in 2023 after pandemic lead to a two year operation extension. It has a peak compute of 5.34 petaflops, 313TB of memory, and gobbles 1.7MW.
In comparison, 18 A100 GPUs would have 5.6 petaflops and 1.4 TB vram, consuming 5.6 kw. The speed of processing and interconnect is orders of magnitude faster for an A100 cluster - 1 8 gpu pod server will cost around $200k, so around $600k more or less beats the supercomputer performance (price I'm searching seems wildly variable, please correct me if I'm wrong.)
The supercomputer flops are FP64. The A100 stats you are using are FP16.
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#37For those curious, Cheyenne is a supercomputer from 2016/2017 that launched on the 20th spot in the top500 super computers. It was decommissioned in 2023 after pandemic lead to a two year operation extension. It has a peak compute of 5.34 petaflops, 313TB of memory, and gobbles 1.7MW.
In comparison, 18 A100 GPUs would have 5.6 petaflops and 1.4 TB vram, consuming 5.6 kw. The speed of processing and interconnect is orders of magnitude faster for an A100 cluster - 1 8 gpu pod server will cost around $200k, so around $600k more or less beats the supercomputer performance (price I'm searching seems wildly variable, please correct me if I'm wrong.)
The Cheyenne numbers are 5.34 petaflops of *FP64*.
The 5.6PF you quote for 18 A100's would be in BF16. Not comparable.
The A100 can only do 9.746 TFLOPS in FP64.
So you would need 548 A100's to match the FP64 performance of the Cheyenne.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
In comparison, 18 A100 GPUs would have 5.6 petaflops and 1.4 TB vram, consuming 5.6 kw. The speed of processing and interconnect is orders of magnitude faster for an A100 cluster - 1 8 gpu pod server will cost around $200k, so around $600k more or less beats the supercomputer performance (price I'm searching seems wildly variable, please correct me if I'm wrong.)
The supercomputer flops are FP64. The A100 stats you are using are FP16.
It's fine. We will simply run weather forecast in BF16 mode and hallucinate the weather.
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#39Hence my simple theory of aesthetics: — if the best stuff from then is still better than good stuff from now, it's art — if the best stuff from then is worse than bad stuff from now, it's technology
May I present my postmodern theory of aesthetics:
- If it's useful as a medium for money laundering, it's art.
- If it's useful as a facilitator for money laundering, it's technology.
Re: Cheyenne Super Computer Auction
#40https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_(supercomputer)
> The Cheyenne supercomputer at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming began operation as one of the world’s most powerful and energy-efficient computers. Ranked in November 2016 as the 20th most powerful computer in the world[1] by Top500, the 5.34-petaflops system[2] is capable of more than triple the amount of scientific computing[3] performed by NCAR’s previous supercomputer, Yellowstone. It also is three times more energy efficient[4] than Yellowstone, with a peak computation rate of more than 3 billion calculations per second for every watt of energy consumed.[5]