Michael Ten @lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoMulti-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leakswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down11
arrow-up1254arrow-down1external-linkMulti-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leakswww.tomshardware.comMichael Ten @lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down4·8 months agoHave fun selling 8000 individual CPUs on eBay, so handling, storage, shipping… and even if that is for free it would only be 1/4 of what they paid. Not too mention that flooding the marked will mean the pieces goes down.
minus-squarepastermil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoThat is true and all, but have it occur to you the person who’s spending all this might not care about money?
minus-squarebradorsomething@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down2·8 months agoNext week we find out russia has their missile cpu problem “mysteriously solved”
minus-squaremonk@lemmy.unboiled.infolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoHope you’re joking, because this is not how any of this works.
Have fun selling 8000 individual CPUs on eBay, so handling, storage, shipping… and even if that is for free it would only be 1/4 of what they paid. Not too mention that flooding the marked will mean the pieces goes down.
That is true and all, but have it occur to you the person who’s spending all this might not care about money?
Next week we find out russia has their missile cpu problem “mysteriously solved”
Hope you’re joking, because this is not how any of this works.