What were you using it for?

Pop up a solar farm and you are good to go, baby!

no use, minecraft server is single threaded. it won't hit 20TPS in an even slightly complex world no matter how much compute you throw at it

That is a really cool resume item, ngl

Do you mind me asking the languages/frameworks backing it? (e.g. JavaScript/Node)

Neat application. Looks fun :D

Currently around $51k, reserve not yet met. Buyer responsible for transportation and cabling not included, fyi.

New Lemmy server?

Let's turn it into a Lemmy server.

I 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.

Edit: I looked it up, it is running SUSE Enterprise Linux, so maybe management isn't as specialized as I expected.

Whoever buys it will most likely just part it out and sell it on ebay.

It's more of an operating cost issue. It's almost decade-old hardware. It was efficient in its day, but compared to new hardware it just costs so much to run you would be better served investing in something with modern efficiency. It won't be junked, it will be parted out. If you are someone that wants a cheap homelab with infiniband and shitloads of memory you could pick up a blade for a fraction of what it would otherwise cost. I fully expect it to turn into thousands of reasonably powerful servers for the prosumer and nerd markets instead of running as a monolithic cluster.

A decade is a lifetime in technology. Moore's law had just ended when this was put together.

If you have too many "slow" modes in a super computer you'll hit a performance ceiling where everything is bottle necked by the speed of things that are not the CPU: memory, disk for swap, and network for sending partial results across nodes for further partial computing.

Source: I've hang up too much around people doing PhD thesis in these kinds of problems.

No. But it will run NetBSD 😇

I'm guessing that it can run multiplayer Doom with ray tracing turned on.

I upvoted cause obligatory joke but there is a map that has like 100k enemies in it, I would like to try it out.

No need to worry, it'll have a terrible hash rate.

Not if you're running Monte Carlo

It doesn't. Bought by hpe.