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Enterprise IT supplier Core 4 Solutions listed a massive 300-rack AI supercomputer on eBay for $59.7 million. The installation features 9,600 discontinued Nvidia A100 40 GB accelerators and 4,200 AMD EPYC Rome 64-core processors. Buyers in the United States were offered unusual delivery choices, including free shipping via FedEx Ground or an overnight delivery option for $50. The listing concluded on October 28 without immediate confirmation of a final sale. [1][2]
Across the entire deployment, the hardware contains roughly 1.4 petabytes of DDR4 system memory alongside 268,800 processor cores. Each individual rack houses four compute nodes and three management nodes, incorporating multiple network interface cards. Although modern Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems cost millions of dollars per single rack, older Ampere-era hardware remains a sought-after alternative to bypass supply delays and long waiting lists. [1][2]
Who said those big AI companies have to get all the gear? If you had a cool $60 million hanging around yesterday, you could have picked up an AI supercomputer for yourself, complete with thousands of Nvidia A100 GPUs and AMD EPYC CPUs split over 300 racks. And if you went cheap, you could even get shipping for free.
via PC Gamer
Someone listed a massive 300-rack AI supercomputer on eBay for $59.7M. Packed with 9,600 A100 GPUs and 4,200 EPYC CPUs, it even ships for free.
via Tom’s Hardware