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Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-240...
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Nope. not even with somebody else's ten foot bargepole. The hardware is well past its use by date, draws too much power (as a system or...
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Most of these kinds of systems have watercooled racks (rear door coolers), not plumbed in servers (the photos I can see all show cooled...
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This is a dumb take: Taxpayers got an extra two years out of this machine by cobbling parts together (due to covid) which extended...
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To be honest, $480k probably doesn't even cover the administrative costs of putting the thing up for auction, whilst simultaneously...
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"It isn't easy to provide an analysis of how much the government stands to lose with the sale of Cheyenne." Zero. It outlasted...
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Seagate demonstrates 3D magnetic recording for 120+ TB HDDs — dual-layer media stacks data bits to boost capacity
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HDD is a less-than-ideal backup medium too. If you want long term (archival) storage, use tape and if you're cycling your backups every...
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On a mmore serious note, HDD unit sales are 90+% down on what they were a decade ago as SSD has essentially taken over the consumer...
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More to the point, when HDDs reach 100TB, SSDs will have far outstripped them. The only question is the cost ratio and I suspect it'll...
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