[cctalk] Re: 5,34 Petaflop System Cheyenne

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On May 3, 2024, at 3:27 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 1:30 PM W2HX via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
>> Someone seems to want it. Bidding is at $250,000 and counting. I guess 
>> someone didn’t get the memo about getting just a few nvidia cards!
> 
> If you go to Amazon today and buy just the CPUs and RAM, that will
> cost you around 21 million dollars. So I imagine those used parts are
> still worth substantially more than the current high bid. The close of
> the auction should be interesting.

Or maybe it's just metals recycling.  If there's more than 120 ounces of gold 
in all those racks, that's $250k right there. 

        paul