Buying this supercomputer for 480k and parting it out for 700k doesn't sound profitable. The amount of labor involved in that sort of business is substantial, y

Buying this supercomputer for 480k and parting it out for 700k doesn't sound profitable. The amount of labor involved in that sort of business is substantial, you have to store the whole thing while you do it, and you're going to crash the ebay market for those parts to boot. Unless the buyer already has buyers lined up for bulk purchases, I don't think parting it out would make any sense.