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Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by SeaJ@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whoever buys it will most likely just part it out and sell it on ebay.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

It's all Broadwell Xeons. Sure, there's 8000 of 'em, but after you factor in purchase price, moving and storage costs, time spent parting out nodes, shipping costs, etc... I think you'd have a hard time breaking even, and for an end user you can get like 4x the FLOPS per socket at half the power consumption with current server CPUs.