1y ago

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.

1y ago

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

1y ago

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

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buys it
just games on it
region-wide blackouts all the time now
"they really should fix that"
- Something something Crysis.
https://gsaauctions.gov/auctions/preview/282996
current price is $100,000
edit: looks like it sold for $480k
- If all of Lenny’s users pool together it should cost just, like, $1000 each. We can each rotate our use to 3.7 days a year.
But can it run crysis?
- Fuck that, run Doom on it
What is the power bill for running that for one day in, say, San Francisco?
Sabotage the local grid mining cryptocurrency.
- We could make our money back if the RSA factoring challenges were still being paid, we would prob have enough computing power and people involved in a group buy to figure out some kind of improved factorization algorithm together
  Just dreaming.........
  
  This all sounds great but what about 1000 chrome tabs open at once and NO ad blockers?
Oh damn, those are the same CPUs I have in my server. Got them off ebay on the cheap.
Group buy, anyone?
It's not a PS3.
What’s amazing is that 99% of people are reading this article on a supercomputer. Likely one that fits in their pocket. If the technology trend continues like it has for the past 70 years or so, we’ll probably have Cheyenne-equivalent computers on our desktops, if not our pockets, in 10-20 years.
If you can afford to be patient, you can get Cheyenne a lot cheaper and a lot smaller.
- You didn't know what you're talking about

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