The Cheyenne supercomputer could be yours for the right price, as it’s currently being auctioned off by the US General Services Administration. It consists of two air-cooled management racks, each weighing 2,500 lb, with 26 1U Servers (20 with 128 GB RAM, 6 with 256 GB RAM), 10 Extreme Switches, and 2 Extreme Switch power units.
In addition to a water-cooling system, the supercomputer features SGI ICE XA modules, 28 racks, 8,064 Intel E5-2697v4 CPUs with a total of 145,152 cores), and 313,344GB of DDR4-2400 ECC single-rank memory. Unfortunately, the fiber and CAT5/6 cabling are not included in the sale price. Check it out here.
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The system is currently experiencing maintenance limitations due to faulty quick disconnects causing water spray. Given the expense and downtime associated with rectifying this issue in the last six months of operation, it’s deemed more detrimental than the anticipated failure rate of compute nodes. Approximately one percent of nodes experienced failure during this period, primarily attributed to DIMMs with ECC errors, which will remain unrepaired,” according to the auction listing.
