[cctalk] Re: 5,34 Petaflop System Cheyenne

Someone seems to want it. Bidding is at $250,000 and counting. I guess someone didn’t get the memo about getting just a few nvidia cards! 73 Eugene W2HX My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@w2hx/videos -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Scott via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, May 3, 2024 11:31 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Cc: Gavin Scott <gavin(a)learn.bio> Subject: [cctalk] Re: 5,34 Petaflop System Cheyenne It's a different world now with GPU and AI performance, so I strongly doubt Cheyenne will ever boot again. Somewhat sad that they're doing such a nice job of de-installing the machine, labeling all the cables etc. 5PF is just not impressive these days. A single Nvidia card will do more than that in FP8 I think which is probably good enough for AI training, and something like 100PF in FP4 for inference. At worst it's a small handful of Nvidia cards to completely replace that monster. It has 8,064 commodity CPUs, "E5-2697v4 (18-core, 2.3 GHz base frequency, Turbo up to 3.6GHz, 145W TDP)" which may still sell new (NOS?) for up to $2K each (though it's probably questionable whether the total future market amounts to anything close to 8K units), and 300TB of standard DDR4 ECC memory. That's probably what people are bidding on. The rest of it is likely getting melted. And it's something like 42 racks of stuff. But tune in for the exciting auction finish at 4PM Pacific. Auction will continue until 10 minutes elapses without a bid I believe.