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SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

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Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

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SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.
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    Power consumption: 1.7 MW

    I hope it stays decommissioned. We’re burning up the planet too fast already, and old computers tend to be far less efficient than modern ones.

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

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        Yeah just need 10Mw+ of solar and like 40mwh of batteries to power it 24/7

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          So just the 10 million dollar solar farm? easy peasy

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            Plus the batteries, unless you only want to run the thing while the sun is up

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      Yeah, I saw the 4Mil BTU on another page, that’s a lot of heat output

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