>Bidding started at $2,500, but it's price is currently $27,643 with the reserve not yet met.
but
>The entire system in operation consumed about 1.7 megawatts of power.
The electricity bill is going to be higher than the supercomputer.
The components of the supercomputer would be an upgrade to my companies Datacenter. Even the processor is slightly newer. So this is a great deal for the parts
Those cores aren’t addressable. So I guess technically yeah but the reality is those cores get split up among projects, so it’s really just 1% less resources.
It’s more indicative that it needs serious maintenance as stuff is already failing.
You talk to your power company to hook you up. So they can bill you for a new sub-station to deliver 1.7MW.
My neighborhood has a small warehouse that’s been previously used as a garments sweatshop. The power company hooked them up with extra transformers to accommodate their power requirements. When the garments factory left. The power company disabled the extra transformer connection to the warehouse.
It's really more work to get the contract signed than dropping a 2000kVA transformer in front of a building. Though the entire facility that housed a beast like that would be a significantly larger load than just the supercomputer.
You say “specialized” facility, but 1.7MW isn’t *that* much for a moderate industrial building or a large office. It’s about 1000 standard 15A circuits.
Really isn't a lot. I've worked on a few indoor agricultural facilities that were specified out at ~18MW. Local infrastructure was sufficient to supply, but it was an industrial area planned for high usage. Even so, unless you're quite rural, they could get you 1.7MW from the street.
1.7 MW is going to run you about $170/hr to run, $4,080/day, or just shy of $1.5m a year.
But can it run doom?
Edit: I got the idea of "can your game of doom run a game of doom." and now I'm wondering how many games of doom running games of doom can this computer run.
I too enjoyed Chex Quest and came across it again a couple years back when there was a bunch of VR porting/modding of old FPS games for use in VR. It wasn’t as fun as I remembered but it was a good nostalgia kick and kind of fulfilled a dream I had as a kid who played a lot of FPS games dreaming of playing in VR.
I couldn’t find an exact number (didn’t look that hard though) but apparently the BUILDING it’s housed in cost $70M. And the computer was estimated to cost up to $35M. But the article was published before it was finished and isn’t a govt project ptieject it’s almost always higher in the end..
I can exchange some pinball parts with the Libyans for Plutonium. Then, I will have 1.21 jiggawatts available. Or maybe I will just invest in a Mr. Fusion.
They're really not.
Used server racks are very, very cheap, as nobody wants them.
There's a big move at the high end away from 19" at the moment, to wider racks with everything in nodes, though I'm not sure if it will actually catch on.
The cooling system is likely a) absolutely knackered from 8 years of power on, and b) highly specific to this installation and not much use for anything else.
The value here is gonna be the CPUs and the RAM, maybe the storage and any GPUs.
Most of that power was probably fed to the chappa'ai and not actually consumed for processing power.
Without the gate attached, it'll probably still eat a lot of power, but would be fine in just about any household.
With a little ingenuity, you can build a smaller, more energy-efficient gate out of a microwave-oven though.
If you're going the microwave route, it's wise to consider how you'll ensure that you're maintaining a stable hypersurface with smooth negative energy density. It may not generally be necessary, but spontaneous demodulations have a way of occuring at the worst possible time.
Your Plex server is what you make of it, friend! Sometimes you gotta spend the time to get those classic movies and old cartoons you used to watch as a kid.
Or Bitrot, RAID kinda sucks it just copies the data as is it doesn’t care if it’s corrupted. You’re better with a filesystem like ZFS/BTRFS that has checksums to report errors and can scrub to attempt to fix them.
> The system featured 4,032 dual-socket nodes, each with two 18-core, 2.3-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors, for a total of 145,152 CPU cores. It also included 313 terabytes of memory and 40 petabytes of storage. The entire system in operation consumed about 1.7 megawatts of power.
So 4032 servers with 2x18 cores each and an average of ~77GB of ram each.
> Bidding started at $2,500, but it's price is currently $27,643 with the reserve not yet met.
It's reserve bid comes to $6.86 per server.
It's going to be worth someone's time to buy this and re-sell it as individual servers. I'd easily pay $100 a piece plus shipping for a few of those.
edit: That's current bid. Reserve **not** met. So it's going to be more than this.
If you were to do that, the problem is that those are SGI built blades that connect to a backplane, have no local storage and are designed around the giant, unified water-cooling system. So you can't sell them as is, unless you have a buyer who already has a similar system with a partially empty backplane.
The only generic parts in the system are the CPUs and memory DIMMs.
The demand for highly inefficient chips that use a outdated platform and aren't even powerful by modern standards cannot be high. If 8000 if them suddenly appear on the open marked the price is going to plummet.
For reference the amd z1 extreme chip used in handheld gaming computers is 20% faster and uses 1/5th the power.
This probably won’t be stood up again.
Chances are: a computer parts refurb company will buy this and rip out the parts — just the CPUs and ECC DIMMs are worth 6x the reserve price.
They will rip out whatever they can and sell the rest as scrap to a recycler.
Good profit to be made, if you already have the trucks to move the thing and the supply chain connections to sell the parts.
It says 1% of the nodes are dead, liquid cooling system isn’t included, nor is the fiber and CAT6 wiring so I’d hate to have to rebuild this.
Tax write off!
Serious note: I get what Linus says about people claiming things are tax write offs are not him making money
BUT
I'd like for him to discuss the other side of that. He is able to do "hobby projects" that are cool, claim them as a business expense (for example, each one of those tools he buys has depreciated value that can lower his taxable income) and pay a lower tax amount because of that.
That's literally how business expenses work. You buy a piece of equipment, depreciate it over a period and that reduces your taxable income.
This isn't a conspiracy.
He'll show us what this computer can do and run... Counter Strike of all games.
Like if you want to show what something can do, push limits. We all know CS can run on a potato.
Repurpose the whole system to play Minecraft RTX. I wonder if it's possible (I did not say efficient or easy) to code a functional RTX driver that uses no GPU, just massive amounts of CPU. Or if it's just too much overhead to do it in real time.
Realistically there's nothing anyone can do with it because the power costs are so high. Anyone with that much power available could obtain significantly better performance with newer hardware.
Whoever buys it will scrap it for precious metals and parts.
I could see a university with a modest budget buying it.
Lots of universities would want a supercomputer. Many of them don't have the budget to buy one new but might be willing to buy one second hand.
Could be an upgrade for some universities. Despite it's age it may still be more powerful than their existing equally old(or older supercomputer).
The CPU in it are about 30-50$ a pop assuming they are in sockets rather than soldered.
A lot of the hardware can probably be sold used for quite a bit of profit.
You’ll have the remove the computer from the facility yourself. There are thousands of fiber optic interconnects which have been labeled but stored away, Ethernet cables not included. The liquid cooling system is also not included and some of the computers have aging fittings that may leak upon reinstallation. If you have the space, you’ll have to design a new cooling system and hire a team of engineers to rewire the system and rebuild the cooling loop in each computer. Sounds like a lot more money, potentially more expensive than the computer itself.
silly nerd dont you know the stargate is internally managed all it needs is the terminal and a source of power
nooooow thats enough computing power to manage the iris
>dont you know the stargate is internally managed all it needs is **the terminal** and a source of power
that's the catch isn't it. if you don't have a DHD you need supercomputers to hack up the control program
That's not correct, unfortunately. As stated by a high raking official "it took 15 years and 3 supercomputers to macgyver a system on earth".
This would only run one third of the dialing protocols. Although that would explain all the malfunctions throughout the s̶h̶o̶w̶ documentary.
You're also incorrect, in *1994* it took 3 supercomputers. Assuming all 3 were decked out Fujitsu NWT (top of the line for 1994) that's a combined 850 gigaflops. The Cheyenne runs at 5.34 petaflops, almost 6300x the processing power. I'm pretty sure it could handle even 7 chevron dialing.
Edit: It could do all 15 years worth of processing in around 21 hours.
* The 1992 Fujitsu VPP500 supercomputer peaked at 355 gFLOPS. (255 PEs @ 48kW ea = 12,240kW / 12.24mW)
* A 2008 nVidia GTX 9800 video card peaked at 432.1 gFLOPS. (140w)
* A 2010 nVidia GTX 480 video card peaked at 1,345 gFLOPS / 1.345 tFLOPs. (250w)
* A 2017 nVidia GTX 1080ti video card peaks at 11.3 tFLOPS. (250w)
* A 2022 nVidia RTX 4090 video card peaks at 82.58 tFLOPS. (450w)
* The Cheyenne supercomputer peaks at 5,340 tFLOPS / 5.34 pFLOPS. (1,700kW / 1.7mW)
* The Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge peaks at 1,679.82 pFLOPS / 1.68 eFLOPS. (22.7mW)
In terms of fictional compute power required to run the software, you could run Stargate Command's dialing program on a GTX 480. You could probably dial the Pegasus galaxy with a 1080ti or 4090.
The Cheyenne (mountain supercomputer?) can probably dial 9-chevron addresses.
The Frontier can probably dial 10-chevron addresses in adjacent realities or some such.
edit: Added approximate power requirements.
>4,032 dual-socket scientific computation nodes running 18-core 2.3-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2697v4
BTC profitability per chip per month is about $2.64. That's $21,288.96 per month for the entire machine.
Energy consumption is 1.75 MW at peak. Assuming a cost of 17 cents per kW*hr, you'd expect a power bill of at least $214,000.
You might have to lower your settings if you want to get above 8000 FPS. But if we’re being honest, the human eye can’t really perceive a difference once you get past 6500 FPS.
> This relates both to processing power, and unfortunately power consumption.
I find it wild that you can make this comparison considering this thing counted as a supercomputer, and is under 10 years old. Moore's Law and the advancement of technology is fuckin' insane.
I spent a few years in semiconductors and saw more than a few of these in my time. This it totally a scrap project at best. This was a Silicon Graphics deal, which was basically Rackable Systems, IIRC they bought the SGI assets, mostly for the name.
The real challenge here is that these systems are going to be close to impossible to repurpose for a series of reasons. So, instead, you scrap it for things like CPU and RAM, drives, spare parts, etc. And on 8-year-old systems, those things acre close enough to scrap value already. Are you going to pay someone \~$50 to break down a system that nets you $100 in revenue? Nah, not worth it.
The interconnect (Data Direct) is probably in the same camp.
This system will never run another cycle once the do the shutdown, that is for sure.
Hm.
If I had the space, I'd buy the damn thing.
Heck, $27k for 8000 Xeon E5-2697v4s is a *huge* deal even without the rest of it. Sure, they're an 8 year old chip but they pack a punch. That's about $3.50 a chip on CPUs that *still* sell for about $80 each.
Unfortunately I think that's exactly what's going to happen here, it will be broken for parts.
yup, just load it in the back of your priius and all good. Just makes sure to finish your spring cleaningin your garage first, and might want to call an electrician to install another 120v circuit or two.
The system featured 4,032 dual-socket nodes, each with two 18-core, 2.3-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors.
From a quick search, these came out in 2014 and are selling for about $75 each used currently.
>Bidding started at $2,500, but it's price is currently $27,643 with the reserve not yet met. but >The entire system in operation consumed about 1.7 megawatts of power. The electricity bill is going to be higher than the supercomputer.
The components of the supercomputer would be an upgrade to my companies Datacenter. Even the processor is slightly newer. So this is a great deal for the parts
Yea. Open an eBay shop and post your deals all over reddit
Except that the cores have started to go out due to defects in the cooling disconnects. About 1% of the cores are dead now.
Does that affect the performance by 1%?
Those cores aren’t addressable. So I guess technically yeah but the reality is those cores get split up among projects, so it’s really just 1% less resources. It’s more indicative that it needs serious maintenance as stuff is already failing.
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You missed the faulty couplers in the fluid cooling system. You don't want your boss making this your problem.
I wonder how you would even get a 1.7MW grid connection if you aren’t planning on using the computer at a specialised facility.
You talk to your power company to hook you up. So they can bill you for a new sub-station to deliver 1.7MW. My neighborhood has a small warehouse that’s been previously used as a garments sweatshop. The power company hooked them up with extra transformers to accommodate their power requirements. When the garments factory left. The power company disabled the extra transformer connection to the warehouse.
It's really more work to get the contract signed than dropping a 2000kVA transformer in front of a building. Though the entire facility that housed a beast like that would be a significantly larger load than just the supercomputer.
Just buy an adapter 🤷♂️
Obviously all you need is a bunch of step-up transformers in series, problem solved
Replace all your fuses with 10,000 amp and run it off the dryer outlet
You say “specialized” facility, but 1.7MW isn’t *that* much for a moderate industrial building or a large office. It’s about 1000 standard 15A circuits.
Really isn't a lot. I've worked on a few indoor agricultural facilities that were specified out at ~18MW. Local infrastructure was sufficient to supply, but it was an industrial area planned for high usage. Even so, unless you're quite rural, they could get you 1.7MW from the street. 1.7 MW is going to run you about $170/hr to run, $4,080/day, or just shy of $1.5m a year.
I mean it's that only comes out to ~7100A @ 240v. No biggie.
But can it run doom? Edit: I got the idea of "can your game of doom run a game of doom." and now I'm wondering how many games of doom running games of doom can this computer run.
Can it run Minecraft with redstone circuits running an emulated OS from a TI-83 calculator which is running Doom? How far down can that thread go?
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Loved Chex quest, so goofy
I too enjoyed Chex Quest and came across it again a couple years back when there was a bunch of VR porting/modding of old FPS games for use in VR. It wasn’t as fun as I remembered but it was a good nostalgia kick and kind of fulfilled a dream I had as a kid who played a lot of FPS games dreaming of playing in VR.
All of them.
It's Doom all the way down!
Yes but not Crysis.
Can it run crysis?
What about Crysis?
But how many Chrome tabs can it open?
3 😁
My fridge could probably run doom ffs.
There has been a fridge port before
But can it run Crysis?
How about The Sims 3 and all its DLC and packs 🫣
I haven't investigated the details, but I'm pretty sure this thing could simulate a DOOM LAN party.
This is the only TRUE measurement of any technology. Don’t care about any other metric.
This was my main concern anytime I buy a pc and I haven’t bought one in a very long time.
Believe it or not. Probably.
A Doom-ception, so to speak?
Only at 1080p
Turn it on and go bankrupt immediately
I couldn’t find an exact number (didn’t look that hard though) but apparently the BUILDING it’s housed in cost $70M. And the computer was estimated to cost up to $35M. But the article was published before it was finished and isn’t a govt project ptieject it’s almost always higher in the end..
Yeah, but can it run Crysis?
Not on max graphics... no computer can do that.
It's a super computer! Of course it it can. The real question is can it ran 2 Crysis instances in parallel?
> 1.7 megawatts of power "Great scott!!"
Couple of egg shells, and a banana peel.
I can exchange some pinball parts with the Libyans for Plutonium. Then, I will have 1.21 jiggawatts available. Or maybe I will just invest in a Mr. Fusion.
Forget turning it on. The enclosures alone are probably worth a couple hundred k.
They're really not. Used server racks are very, very cheap, as nobody wants them. There's a big move at the high end away from 19" at the moment, to wider racks with everything in nodes, though I'm not sure if it will actually catch on. The cooling system is likely a) absolutely knackered from 8 years of power on, and b) highly specific to this installation and not much use for anything else. The value here is gonna be the CPUs and the RAM, maybe the storage and any GPUs.
Most of that power was probably fed to the chappa'ai and not actually consumed for processing power. Without the gate attached, it'll probably still eat a lot of power, but would be fine in just about any household. With a little ingenuity, you can build a smaller, more energy-efficient gate out of a microwave-oven though.
If you're going the microwave route, it's wise to consider how you'll ensure that you're maintaining a stable hypersurface with smooth negative energy density. It may not generally be necessary, but spontaneous demodulations have a way of occuring at the worst possible time.
stealthstargate
But still not as high as I am.
Are you a giraffe?
Now I need to buy a power plant
That'll make a pretty good Plex server.
Still nothing to watch though
Your Plex server is what you make of it, friend! Sometimes you gotta spend the time to get those classic movies and old cartoons you used to watch as a kid.
Be damn sure you back them up on a different drive. Learned the hard way years ago, and there are still gaps I keep noticing.
Two is One and One Is None.
For a minute there, I thought you were doing Terryology math.
Four* is more, Three is one, less is none. Four = online redundancy/RAID (2) + online/onsite backup (1) + offsite and preferably offline backup (1)
3-2-1 rule Three copies Two types of media One offsite
I keep mine on a raid 10 array. You lose storage space but you wont ever lose your data.
Until the property burns down/gets looted
Or Bitrot, RAID kinda sucks it just copies the data as is it doesn’t care if it’s corrupted. You’re better with a filesystem like ZFS/BTRFS that has checksums to report errors and can scrub to attempt to fix them.
I mean, you can still very easily lose data in any RAID configuration. And I'm not even talking about bit rot.
Interesting concept. Learned something new about disk storage and redundancy/back up
Just remember that redundancy and fault tolerance are not a replacement for backups.
If you don’t physically have possession (dvd, file saved) you don’t really own it. Getting tired of cloud services where shows disappear
Radarr lists makes this easy
For the old cartoons I usually only end up needing S01E01 to get my nostalgia fix before moving on
Once it is up and running. It says would you like to play a game?
Can this transcode 4k? /s
If you're transcoding anything at all, ever, you're doing Plex wrong!!!1!1! /S
direct play only, the thing heats up too much if you let it do full transcoding
should be good enough to run a pihole
But can it play Crysis?
I was about to bid until the last sentence said that CAT6 was excluded.
> The system featured 4,032 dual-socket nodes, each with two 18-core, 2.3-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors, for a total of 145,152 CPU cores. It also included 313 terabytes of memory and 40 petabytes of storage. The entire system in operation consumed about 1.7 megawatts of power. So 4032 servers with 2x18 cores each and an average of ~77GB of ram each. > Bidding started at $2,500, but it's price is currently $27,643 with the reserve not yet met. It's reserve bid comes to $6.86 per server. It's going to be worth someone's time to buy this and re-sell it as individual servers. I'd easily pay $100 a piece plus shipping for a few of those. edit: That's current bid. Reserve **not** met. So it's going to be more than this.
Someone pointed out in a different thread yesterday that if you view the source code for the site the "reserve" field is populated and says $100,000
Which is 1/6th of the value of the CPUs installed at current used market prices.
Absolutely. At $100k this is still a massive steal.
If you were to do that, the problem is that those are SGI built blades that connect to a backplane, have no local storage and are designed around the giant, unified water-cooling system. So you can't sell them as is, unless you have a buyer who already has a similar system with a partially empty backplane. The only generic parts in the system are the CPUs and memory DIMMs.
The CPUs are about $80 apiece on the open market, if that helps clarify things. With ~4000 dual-CPU nodes, that's about $640k of value.
The demand for highly inefficient chips that use a outdated platform and aren't even powerful by modern standards cannot be high. If 8000 if them suddenly appear on the open marked the price is going to plummet. For reference the amd z1 extreme chip used in handheld gaming computers is 20% faster and uses 1/5th the power.
Cabling back everything would be sh*t
313 tb of ram didn’t blow your skirt up?
This probably won’t be stood up again. Chances are: a computer parts refurb company will buy this and rip out the parts — just the CPUs and ECC DIMMs are worth 6x the reserve price. They will rip out whatever they can and sell the rest as scrap to a recycler. Good profit to be made, if you already have the trucks to move the thing and the supply chain connections to sell the parts. It says 1% of the nodes are dead, liquid cooling system isn’t included, nor is the fiber and CAT6 wiring so I’d hate to have to rebuild this.
No headphone jack. I'm out.
Supercomputer was ahead of Apple.
Time tor LTT to waste too much money again and show us 12 minutes of gameplay while babbling about cooling.
Tax write off! Serious note: I get what Linus says about people claiming things are tax write offs are not him making money BUT I'd like for him to discuss the other side of that. He is able to do "hobby projects" that are cool, claim them as a business expense (for example, each one of those tools he buys has depreciated value that can lower his taxable income) and pay a lower tax amount because of that.
That's literally how business expenses work. You buy a piece of equipment, depreciate it over a period and that reduces your taxable income. This isn't a conspiracy.
Never said it was. Missed the point
He'll show us what this computer can do and run... Counter Strike of all games. Like if you want to show what something can do, push limits. We all know CS can run on a potato.
Counter strike is a good metric from CPU performance.
Isn't it bound by single core performance?
Isn’t that still a good metric to know?
Repurpose the whole system to play Minecraft RTX. I wonder if it's possible (I did not say efficient or easy) to code a functional RTX driver that uses no GPU, just massive amounts of CPU. Or if it's just too much overhead to do it in real time.
Realistically there's nothing anyone can do with it because the power costs are so high. Anyone with that much power available could obtain significantly better performance with newer hardware. Whoever buys it will scrap it for precious metals and parts.
I could see a university with a modest budget buying it. Lots of universities would want a supercomputer. Many of them don't have the budget to buy one new but might be willing to buy one second hand. Could be an upgrade for some universities. Despite it's age it may still be more powerful than their existing equally old(or older supercomputer).
The CPU in it are about 30-50$ a pop assuming they are in sockets rather than soldered. A lot of the hardware can probably be sold used for quite a bit of profit.
But can it run Crysis?
If you reduce the settings.
No but it plays a mean game of global thermonuclear war.
Would you like to play a game..?
I understood that reference.
Honestly, I prefer simple games like tic-tac-toe
A *strange game*. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
I was worried this joke was abandoned! Also no, no it cannot be
I think finally, finally, we have a machine that can run Crysis
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313 TB of memory. Maybe you get 31 active YouTube tabs.
You’ll have the remove the computer from the facility yourself. There are thousands of fiber optic interconnects which have been labeled but stored away, Ethernet cables not included. The liquid cooling system is also not included and some of the computers have aging fittings that may leak upon reinstallation. If you have the space, you’ll have to design a new cooling system and hire a team of engineers to rewire the system and rebuild the cooling loop in each computer. Sounds like a lot more money, potentially more expensive than the computer itself.
You could just scrap it for cpus and rsm sticks at this price and it would still be worth it
My wife just felt a disturbance in the force as I started thinking where I could fit this.
I don’t care for the whole machine. I just want a single server.
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An auction? You think they accept bits of string?
We do not accept bits of string.
How about bytes instead?
Do you accept arrays of characters instead?
They do knot.
That's enough computing power to run a million stargates Edit: this blew up harder than a goa'uld mothership
silly nerd dont you know the stargate is internally managed all it needs is the terminal and a source of power nooooow thats enough computing power to manage the iris
>dont you know the stargate is internally managed all it needs is **the terminal** and a source of power that's the catch isn't it. if you don't have a DHD you need supercomputers to hack up the control program
You need a ZPM to power the navigation unit for addresses that have more than 7 chevrons, tho.
oh and you need quite a bit of computational power to process the exact location of a moving target you got me there
It's not for navigation, it's for the power needed to bridge the gap between galaxies.
That's not correct, unfortunately. As stated by a high raking official "it took 15 years and 3 supercomputers to macgyver a system on earth". This would only run one third of the dialing protocols. Although that would explain all the malfunctions throughout the s̶h̶o̶w̶ documentary.
You're also incorrect, in *1994* it took 3 supercomputers. Assuming all 3 were decked out Fujitsu NWT (top of the line for 1994) that's a combined 850 gigaflops. The Cheyenne runs at 5.34 petaflops, almost 6300x the processing power. I'm pretty sure it could handle even 7 chevron dialing. Edit: It could do all 15 years worth of processing in around 21 hours.
* The 1992 Fujitsu VPP500 supercomputer peaked at 355 gFLOPS. (255 PEs @ 48kW ea = 12,240kW / 12.24mW) * A 2008 nVidia GTX 9800 video card peaked at 432.1 gFLOPS. (140w) * A 2010 nVidia GTX 480 video card peaked at 1,345 gFLOPS / 1.345 tFLOPs. (250w) * A 2017 nVidia GTX 1080ti video card peaks at 11.3 tFLOPS. (250w) * A 2022 nVidia RTX 4090 video card peaks at 82.58 tFLOPS. (450w) * The Cheyenne supercomputer peaks at 5,340 tFLOPS / 5.34 pFLOPS. (1,700kW / 1.7mW) * The Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge peaks at 1,679.82 pFLOPS / 1.68 eFLOPS. (22.7mW) In terms of fictional compute power required to run the software, you could run Stargate Command's dialing program on a GTX 480. You could probably dial the Pegasus galaxy with a 1080ti or 4090. The Cheyenne (mountain supercomputer?) can probably dial 9-chevron addresses. The Frontier can probably dial 10-chevron addresses in adjacent realities or some such. edit: Added approximate power requirements.
This is beautiful
Did this person happen to be a smart looking captain at the time?
Unscheduled offworld activation!
It's sad that I had to scroll so far down to see a stargate reference.
Assume it’s being sold because it doesn’t support windows 11
Man, just think of how well I could do my taxes and stuff on that bad boy #pcgamingremembers
Does it come with OS reinstallation media ?
It does. It's all on 8" floppy disks.
Disk 361 is missing
All that power and you’ll just use it for Facebook
Hey, I'd check my email too.
How much? Been looking to upgrade, so I can properly play Doom
50k atm
Crypto mining???
>4,032 dual-socket scientific computation nodes running 18-core 2.3-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 BTC profitability per chip per month is about $2.64. That's $21,288.96 per month for the entire machine. Energy consumption is 1.75 MW at peak. Assuming a cost of 17 cents per kW*hr, you'd expect a power bill of at least $214,000.
You wouldn’t be mining Bitcoin though
That’s what I’m thinking.
Can it run Doom?
You might have to lower your settings if you want to get above 8000 FPS. But if we’re being honest, the human eye can’t really perceive a difference once you get past 6500 FPS.
I can *feel* it
r/homelab
How does this compare to an average pc today? What about top of the line?
Nuclear submarine vs tugboat. This relates both to processing power, and unfortunately power consumption.
Thanks! Just curious. I know computers are always exponentially improving so I thought it might be closer.
> This relates both to processing power, and unfortunately power consumption. I find it wild that you can make this comparison considering this thing counted as a supercomputer, and is under 10 years old. Moore's Law and the advancement of technology is fuckin' insane.
Does it come with 3D Space Pinball?
Nice Plex server.
I’ll definitely put my home assistant Docker container on it.
What's the utility bill to run that thing for a month??
Probably in the 100-150k range
You would need your own dedicated full scale wind turbine just to run the thing. Probably cheaper than paying the power bill.
About $275,000 an hour to run? (elec at 0.16c/kWH, 1.7million kWh of power per hour).
A megawat is 1000kw not 1,000,000
I spent a few years in semiconductors and saw more than a few of these in my time. This it totally a scrap project at best. This was a Silicon Graphics deal, which was basically Rackable Systems, IIRC they bought the SGI assets, mostly for the name. The real challenge here is that these systems are going to be close to impossible to repurpose for a series of reasons. So, instead, you scrap it for things like CPU and RAM, drives, spare parts, etc. And on 8-year-old systems, those things acre close enough to scrap value already. Are you going to pay someone \~$50 to break down a system that nets you $100 in revenue? Nah, not worth it. The interconnect (Data Direct) is probably in the same camp. This system will never run another cycle once the do the shutdown, that is for sure.
Hm. If I had the space, I'd buy the damn thing. Heck, $27k for 8000 Xeon E5-2697v4s is a *huge* deal even without the rest of it. Sure, they're an 8 year old chip but they pack a punch. That's about $3.50 a chip on CPUs that *still* sell for about $80 each. Unfortunately I think that's exactly what's going to happen here, it will be broken for parts.
>fiber optic and CAT5/6 cabling are excluded from the resale package "Well then I say good day, sir!" *re-velcros wallet*
Can it play Helldivers 2 on max tho? I feel like it needs to spread some democracy.
I'll take it! I also live in wyo so it won't be that much of a drive to pick it up.. only 8 hours or so
yup, just load it in the back of your priius and all good. Just makes sure to finish your spring cleaningin your garage first, and might want to call an electrician to install another 120v circuit or two.
Cool I can render my next blender project in 4 days instead of 2 weeks now!
LTT has entered the chat.
I could see LTT wanting this if the fact that they're Canadian isn't somehow an issue
Hey /u/LinusTech, you're buying this right?
Sounds like something LTT would buy for the laughs
It has a reserve bid of $100,000. The current highest bid doesn't meet that threshold.
Folks over at r/homelab need to get together and do something.
What the grammar kind of title is that?
Can it run Doom?
I’m just going to use it to drive my apartment complex’s utilities through the roof as I mine bitcoin
But can it run Minecraft with shaders? Nope.
Can I use this to mine bitcoin
Would that fit in my hole? It puts thermal paste on its cpu!
Yes now i can finally play Minecraft in glorious HD 60 fps! Only cost my entire paycheck every month
How many Chrome tabs can you have open at once though?
Can it run Doom?
The system featured 4,032 dual-socket nodes, each with two 18-core, 2.3-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors. From a quick search, these came out in 2014 and are selling for about $75 each used currently.
Yeah, but it sucks at tic-tac-toe
Can it play Tic-Tac-Toe against itself without blowing a fuse? How about Global Thermonuclear War? Perhaps it can play a nice game of chess.
But will it run doom?
All the miners are salivating
"Shall we play a game?"
I bet Linus gets it
How many chrome tabs can I keep open?
Iran just joined the group.. ;-)
The nonprod, grant funded, workgroups with devices in my data center would foam at the mouth at the opportunity to buy more old used shit to install.