By Walt Hickey Supercomputing The U.S. government’s Cheyenne supercomputer auction has ended, with all 313 TB of ram and 8,064 Intel processors selling for $480,085 after attracting 27 bidders. The 32 petabytes of storage were not included, but given the current prices for the materials you’re still talking a few hundred thousand dollars’ worth of parts alone, provided you don’t immediately flood the market with eight thousand processors. Mostly used for weather and climate studies, the 5.34-petaflop system originally cost somewhere in the ballpark of $25 million to $35 million upon construction, with the replacement — an HP machine called Derecho — costing $35 million to $40 million.
My half-awake m eyes combined two of these headlines. “Rick Lotus” sounds like he should have a successful group of car dealerships throughout the TVA…
Alas, the cicada boom will NOT take place where I live. As I understand it, it will be mainly in the Midwest and the South.
It's an especially good time to not live in the Midwest or South, it seems.
Unless you’re a caterpillar
My half-awake m eyes combined two of these headlines. “Rick Lotus” sounds like he should have a successful group of car dealerships throughout the TVA…
But I should email my friend who works at one of those plants.