SeaJHere’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer
Seems like it’s cheap to start the bidding at $2500 but the cheapest thing is probably the initial purchase price after moving it, buying the needed cabling, and electricity bills.
mikyopiiI bet manpower costs are significant as well. How many people are needed to run this thing? You probably need engineers with an esoteric set of skills to put it back together and manage it which would not be cheap.
gregorumIt may be running SLED, but just imagine all the specialized, tweaked af code running on top. They didn’t just pop in a LiveCD and click “Install”.
No, they probably had to pop the live CD into each node individually and click “instal”. Then run a script on each one to join it to the cluster.
Of course. I was obviously referring to what it takes to operate it after that. Not to mention how complicated setting that whole mess up is.