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>Components of the Cheyenne Supercomputer Installed Configuration: SGI ICE™ XA. E-Cells: 14 units weighing 1500 lbs. each. E-Racks: 28 units, all water-coole
by Isamu 2y ago
>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 having 128GB per node, totaling 313,344 GB
Topology: EDR Enhanced Hypercube
IB Switches: 224 units
Moving this system necessitates the engagement of a professional moving company. Please note the four (4) attached documents detailing the facility requirements and specifications will be provided. Due to their considerable weight, the racks require experienced movers equipped with proper Professional Protection Equipment (PPE) to ensure safe handling. The purchaser assumes responsibility for transferring the racks from the facility onto trucks using their equipment.
- chasil 2y agoI can find a bunch of the E5-2697v4 CPUs on eBay in the $30-40 range. I wonder if there is a market for the SGI hardware.
- michaelt 2y agoSo getting 8,064 of them for $3,085 - 38 cents per CPU - is great value for money!
- kube-system 2y agoDump 8,064 old processors on eBay and you'll probably introduce some downwards price pressure.
- jazzyjackson 2y agothis is basically "free grand piano" - not so free once you hire the movers and tuners
- jeremyjh 2y agoThat’s just the current bid and it hasn’t met the reserve.
- slavik81 2y agoThe reserve price for the auction is $100k.
- Locutus_ 2y agoThere is, but really only for the MIPS hardware.
- mk_stjames 2y agoGiven 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 seems each motehrboard is a dual CPU board and so there are 4032 nodes, but the nodes are in blades that likely need their rack for power. But I think individual cabinets would be cool to own. There are 144 nodes per cabinet... so 28 cabinets. I'd pay a fair amount just to own a cabinet to stick in my garage if I was near there.
- chasil 2y agoThese are blades, so there is probably some kind of container chassis required to run them. Using them as desktop PCs would likely be a challenge.
- electroly 2y agoThe 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.
- w-ll 2y agoWorld of Warcraft sold decommissioned blades for about that much with no intention to be actually used. Just something to thru up in the cave.
- fnord77 2y agoI don't think there's that big of a market for obsolete server pieces as nostalgia... But you could probably make a decent profit on just the CPUs alone parted out, even with the moving/handling costs.
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- unnouinceput 2y ago>...totaling 313,344 GB Can you imagine the RAMDisk? Yes, you can. Especially in 20 years when it will be the norm. And also the Windows version that will require half of it in order to run /s
- christkv 2y agoDoes it come with a portable nuclear reactor to power it?
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- CalRobert 2y agoIs it not "Personal" protective equipment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_protective_equipment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_protective_equipment
- op00to 2y agoYou need PPE to protect your profession of moving stuff.
- araes 2y agoIf somebody has the money, and the resources required to house the system, seems like decent value for the money at the reserve (apparently $100k) The range of, I'd buy if I had the money and a valid use case. Even partial resale like suggested. There's an argument about being behind the "most" advanced. Yet, its a petascale server from 2016 that was good enough for the NSF. It's not exactly an old dog. The stuff I could quickly find was $1M+ in individual sales (not sure about auction sites and used). DDR4 RAM $734,500 @ $75 / 32 GB for 313,344 GB CPUs $484,000 @ $60 / (1) E5-2697v4 for 8,064 units Figure the hard drives must also be enormous, and probably a huge amount of storage, just not sure on the quantity, and they may not be sold with the system. They're not kidding on the moving company, that's 10's of tons of computer to haul somewhere. 26 1U Servers @ 2500 lbs each. Couple semi-trucks, since the most they can usually do is 44,000 lbs on US highways. Not sure if the E-Cell weight was 14 @ 1500 lbs in addition to the 26 @ 2500 lbs?
- araes 2y agoApparently it ended up selling for the cost of the CPUs at $480,000. Also, guess my math was low, and it was a 47 ton computer. https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/07/cheyenne-supercomputer-sold-to-mystery-buyer-for-480-000/ https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/07/cheyenne-supercomput...