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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (29 children)

Is that a good deal? I mean, it says "multi-million" and then it sells for less than 1/2 million, so I'm guessing good deal.

IDK, part it out on eBay?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Ian Cutress recently did a video on the topic here (I think he changed the title to reflect the end price of the auction), which does a bit of a breakdown. You for example also have to add shipping costs (from a certified company) to the price.

Pretty crazy to think that it is actually not sure whether spending less than 500k on a supercomputer is worth it. Goes to show how far technology has come.

I guess if everything sells you might make profit, but then it also comes with a lot of hassle and risk. And for actually using it, I imagine that electricity cost would be a huge factor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What about the metal costs? Is this thing worth at this price for disassembly and salvaging?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are only tiny amounts of precious metals in there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Care to elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I mean there definitely are some valuable metals in there, but I can't imagine that this is a competitive price to pay for them, especially since extraction wouldn't be easy. And some parts do have value, even if it ends up being the case that running the full cluster isn't economic anymore.

I do wonder who at this point could use all those processors (and Mainboards), but the ram might still be reasonable to use, maybe the cables, the cabinets themselves too. And I think the video also mentions that there are two managing servers. Those might be most likely to actually be useful for their original purpose.

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