145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.
  • mikyopii@programming.devEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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.

    • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Yup, most of these are just a lot of relatively normal hardware put together into one system.