Less than 10 years ago it was the 20th most powerful supercomputer in the world
So, the Cheyenne supercomputer was sold at auction. The final price was $480,085.
It is known that 27 people took part in the auction. It is not reported who exactly won the auction, but the buyer will have to carry out the removal of the supercomputer, which consists of 30 server racks, on his own, and then assemble it where the system will be installed.
At the time of its release in 2016, Cheyenne ranked 20th on the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. It is powered by 8064 18-core Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors and has 313 TB of RAM and 40 PB of storage. The system consumes 1.7 MW of power and offers a performance of 5.34 PFLOPS. The US General Services Administration, which offered the lot, notes that approximately 1% of the compute nodes failed, primarily due to ECC errors in the DIMMs.