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If somebody has the money, and the resources required to house the system, seems like decent value for the money at the reserve (apparently $100k) The range of, I'd buy if I had the money and a valid use case. Even partial resale like suggested. There's an argument about being behind the "most" advanced. Yet, its a petascale server from 2016 that was good enough for the NSF. It's not exactly an old dog.

The stuff I could quickly find was $1M+ in individual sales (not sure about auction sites and used).

DDR4 RAM $734,500 @ $75 / 32 GB for 313,344 GB

CPUs $484,000 @ $60 / (1) E5-2697v4 for 8,064 units

Figure the hard drives must also be enormous, and probably a huge amount of storage, just not sure on the quantity, and they may not be sold with the system.

They're not kidding on the moving company, that's 10's of tons of computer to haul somewhere. 26 1U Servers @ 2500 lbs each. Couple semi-trucks, since the most they can usually do is 44,000 lbs on US highways. Not sure if the E-Cell weight was 14 @ 1500 lbs in addition to the 26 @ 2500 lbs?

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Apparently it ended up selling for the cost of the CPUs at $480,000. Also, guess my math was low, and it was a 47 ton computer.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/07/cheyenne-supercomput...