I Tried To Buy A Supercomputer...

hello guys and gals me mudahar and today

I wanted to talk about me failing to buy

a

supercomputer yeah you heard that right

ladies and gentlemen now you're looking

at a US auction website right over here

called GSA Auctions all right now if

you're looking at this this is the

Cheyenne supercomputer and if you've

been following you know computer stuff

for the last couple days you might have

noticed that amongst all of the things

available to buy was a supercomputer so

for most people following these days the

rap beef between two rappers is kind of

the news but for me trying to purchase a

supercomputer was something that was

seriously in my

considerations and I failed so to give

you an idea of it this is the current

bid for it the final bid

$480,000 for the Cheyenne superc Compu

and it's been met and this computer's

been sold this is something that I was

seriously considering to the point where

I wanted to purchase it alongside or

purchase it for myself but really wanted

to work with other YouTubers as well I

sented a few messages to lonus Tech

group uh a few of the other Tech

channels right here just to see if

anybody could facilitate if I could just

buy this computer and somebody may have

had the space and the power requirements

to run something like this unfortunately

the timing was too little to set up the

accounts for purchasing this was already

a nuisance in of itself you needed to

get like all of your information your

fin tracks everything to go and honestly

the ability to get this much money on a

dime was a challenge in of itself

spending half a million dollars to

purchase the Cheyenne supercomputer was

just really not worth the time now from

a money perspective honestly buying this

the whole point of us to purchase this

was to make like a bit of content out of

it to show people things like breaking

encryption using a supercomputer and how

infeasible it is even if you have some

of the most top-of-the-line syst systems

out there and using all the distributed

computing possible it would show you

that breaking encryptions and various

easily accured security like practices

was almost an impossibility right even

with the Cheyenne supercomputer or a lot

of supercomputers in general breaking

things like encryption which keeps a lot

of your personal information private and

secure from not just me you various

prying eyes but multiple governments is

something that I wanted to Showcase and

amongst else I wanted to kind of show

you how gaming on a supercomputer was

going to happen even though gaming on a

supercomputer is really not that

exciting okay when you take one node out

of these supercomputers the software

just doesn't really translate that well

over to something that is supposed to be

designed to distribute its Computing so

to give you an idea the cheyen

supercomputer the water cooling system

basically this whole thing came with 14

different units weighing 1,500 lb each

so the whole problem was to grab this

thing and also ship it over to Canada or

potentially a warehouse that we would

have probably gotten somewhere in the

United States anyways and then of course

beyond all of it they ended up giving

4,032 dual socket units right nodes and

of course

8,064 processors E5 2697 v4s all right

and of course these are 18 core

processors each with 2.3 GHz base

frequencies turboing up to 3.6 GHz as

well total corewise you're looking at4

4,152 cores okay as far as memory goes

boys and girls you've got 64 gigs per

node basically totaling to

313,000 us per day from my understanding

based on current electrical prices to

operate this computer so asides from

purchasing this for a meme look some

people like to buy Ferraris and Lambos

and mansions me this would have been a

great buy if it wasn't for the fact that

it got priced out to no Oblivion now the

person that did end up buying this I

highly understand that they're probably

going to take this thing gut it for

parts and sell it and they'll actually

make a profit out out of it the problem

is is we kind of considered that here

but the thing is it just took way too

much time out of our days to even

consider doing that so honestly a lot

easier to make money in other capacities

versus trying to pimp out and price out

and basically Chop Shop a super computer

even though that also in retrospect

would have been a pretty Banger video to

talk about okay to chop shop an entire

former US supercomputer now

supercomputers are without a doubt

constantly evolving and one thing that

it's worth looking at if you ever are

interested in a topic like this is the

top 500 list so according in November

2023 the top 10 which is the top 10

supercomputers in the entire world right

now are all categorized in a list so for

instance in the top supercomputer that

belongs to Oakridge National Laboratory

okay and that is in the United States

and they are looking at

8.6 basically 8.7 million cores okay and

the power requirements on this are AST

nomical so yeah that's a lot of

godamn cores available and the pedop

flops which again these are really

really fast computers really really

designed for distributed work that's

what they're listed at so of course the

top three are located in the United

States after that you get to the fugaku

in Japan you get to the Lumi in Finland

then Italy the US Spain in the United

States again the US kind of holds a

monopoly on a lot of these

supercomputers so at least the top ones

that are available now you might be

wondering but muda why would anybody

need to use a supercomputer for okay

what is the use for something this

goddamn powerful does it allow you to do

like crazy things like simulate entire

worlds within no supercomputers are used

for things like quantum mechanics

forecasting the weather oil and gas

exploration and climate research so the

way that these things work is they're

designed to run multiple simulations

upon simulations upon simulations and

using the distributed power and the

available power already we're able to

simulate a bunch of things that

supercomputers are able to do with the

amount of actual processing that they

are capable of when you distribute all

of it now the thing is all of the

supercomputers or at least the world's

fastest ones also run entirely on Linux

and one of the things about Linux is

supercomputing is such a weird form

where to an extent even the United

States military when they wanted to

build a supercomputer cluster the US Air

Force had purchased

1,700 and 60 PlayStation and three

systems to use them to build a

distributed supercomputer Computing

cluster so if you don't know the story

of the Condor super cluster this image

is a little low resolution but these are

all PlayStation 3s basically lined up

connected to each other all designed to

run in parallel and create what is a

super computer cluster and that is the

PlayStation 3 system so back in the day

when the PS3 dropped it came with a

feature known as other OS which allowed

users to install Linux onto it so the

Army before this feature was taken away

by Sony they had BAS basically installed

Linux connected these devices together

and created a super Computing cluster

that they used in the Army and

apparently it became a pretty

good supercomputer to the point where it

was able to Output 500 Tera flops and

this is back in 2010 that this was

reported so it's actually kind of funny

too because when you look at the history

of supercomputing in Sony this wasn't

the first time any military was alleged

to use it back in the day a group a news

site known as the World Net daily had I

guess falsely reported that 4,000

PlayStation 2 systems were being bought

up by Saddam Hussein I made a

video on this like probably six years

ago where I talked about this whole

story but the idea was it was alleged

that Saddam had purchased all these

PlayStation 2 supercomputers or

Playstation 2 systems basically got

Linux installed from my understanding

and Jerry rigged it together to make a

PlayStation 2 era supercomputer and

according to euro daily at the time what

they had basically said World Net Daily

was that a single PlayStation can

generate up to 75 million polygons per

second so again these are extremely

useful in military design and modeling

applications bundled PlayStation

computers can be used to calculate

ballistic data for long range missiles

or in the design of nuclear weapons dude

but one of the claims that apparently

they made was an integrated bundle of 12

to 15 PlayStations could provide enough

computing power to control an Iraqi

unmanned aerial vehicle or

UAV God damn nowadays an iPhone could

probably part control multiple uavs for

crying out loud but these were one of

those hoaxes that people just like to

laugh at but going back to the cheyen

supercomputer it was decommissioned and

parts of the supercomputer were being

sold simply because the failure rate had

started to reach from my understanding

something with the memory had started to

cause more failures and at that point it

was just time to decommission it and

basically rely on the more powerful

supercomputers that existed now of

course in the world of supercomputers

out there you could buy this for your

own personal research but I think the

juice isn't worth the squeeze the person

buying this could probably get it

working up and again but it's probably

worth more to just gut this thing out

and sell it for parts of that point

that's the only way that an actual

investment could probably uh bear fruit

if if you will on the situation but yeah

this is actually one thing that we

wanted to buy but because of obviously

the meme of it uh but corresponding with

half a million dollars going towards

purchasing a supercomputer it just

wasn't a thing that was going to

reasonably happen had we probably had

like a month or two extra on this

auction maybe we would seriously

consider it but honestly the fact that

this thing initially started out and

like somebody put like a a bid up for

like 50 bucks

but it just evolved we all knew this was

going to sell for like six figures at

some point so again it really became a

situation of it's not really worth it to

go buy this thing even if it is for the

meme or a little bit for the content um

and honestly you were just going to get

out bit anyways by somebody that was

literally going to chop shop this thing

up and sell it for parts anyways but

yeah one of the world's uh most famous

supercomputers of will to the Cheyenne

was in news that ended up basically

being sold off and now it has become a

gutted chop chopped Legacy of computing

past but yeah supercomputers are

interesting and maybe one day we'll

build something smaller and a much

smaller scale but yeah something I

wanted to buy but ultimately time and

and and money really really prevented us

from getting access to what is

ultimately a pretty cool piece of

history that said ladies and gentlemen

yeah this is me mudahar and uh yeah I am

out