The U.S. government is auctioning the once top supercomputer Cheyenne, with a starting price of $2,500 and ending at 6:11 pm on May 5, 2024. Cheyenne was installed at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in the second half of 2016, with a peak performance of 5.34 petaflops. At that time, it ranked 20th in the world on the Top500 list. It will be decommissioned at the end of 2023 after 7 years of service. One of the reasons for decommissioning was maintenance issues caused by cooling system failure. Considering the cost of repairs and downtime, it decided to decommission it for auction. The Cheyenne supercomputer is manufactured by SGI, which HP acquired shortly before the system was installed, and consists of 4,032 nodes, each with two 18-core 2.3-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 Broadwell processors, for a total of 145,152 cores. Of these, 3,164 nodes are equipped with 64GB of memory and 864 nodes are equipped with 128GB of memory. The U.S. government says buyers will need to bring their own professional movers with the appropriate equipment to move heavy racks and components.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/us-government-auctions-5-34-petaflop-cheyenne-supercomputer/
https://www.cisl.ucar.edu/ncar-supercomputing-history/cheyenne
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