Subj : Missed out on the $500,000 Cheyenne supercomputer deal? Supermicr
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Sun May 26 2024 13:15:05

Missed out on the $500,000 Cheyenne supercomputer deal? Supermicro has an 
Intel server offer that you can't refuse  eight Gaudi 2 AI accelerators, 76 
cores, 1TB of RAM and 100GbE for just $90,000

Date:
Sun, 26 May 2024 11:59:14 +0000

Description:
Supermicro is offering an Intel Gaudi 2 server for $90,000, including eight 
Gaudi 2 AI accelerators and 1TB of RAM.

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Cheyenne, a US supercomputer once ranked 20th in the world and with 8,000 
Intel Xeon CPUs and 300TB of RAM (plus a few maintenance issues, including 
water leaks), was recently auctioned off by US General Services 
Administration (GSA). 

After a tussle between 27 bidders, Cheyenne went for a respectable $480,085, 
plus the costs of dismantling and moving it to its new home. 

If you fancy owning a supercomputer, but your pockets arent quite so deep, or 
youd prefer one that isnt a fixer-upper, then Supermicro has you covered. 
Bang for your buck 

As spotted by ServeTheHome , Supermicro is selling complete Intel Gaudi 2 
servers for $90,000. The price for AI servers isnt usually advertised, so its 
interesting to see this promotion which is headed (somewhat clumsily): 
Supermicro and Intel Team Up for Special Pricing on a Gaudi 2 GPU Server. 

Want to know what youll get for your money? This "special configuration" 
(SYS-820GH-TNR2-01) includes one Supermicro Gaudi 2 system, supporting eight 
Habana Gaudi-2 OAM Mezz cards (8U), two Intel Xeon Platinum 8368 Processors, 
16x 64GB DDR4-3200 ECC RDIMM, two 960GB NVMe PCIe 4.0 (M.2), two 7.6TB NVMe 
PCIe 4.0 (U.2), one NIC, CX-6 VPI (IB/EN), 100G, Dual Port QSFP56, System 
Management Software Suite Node License, and eight Intel Gaudi 2 OCP OAM Spec 
v1.3 with heatsink. 

If that doesnt meet your exact needs, or you want to avail yourself of a 
discount, you can configure your own Supermicro Gaudi 2 Server, choosing the 
components that you require. Youll need to speak to Supermicro directly for 
pricing, however. 

Intel launched Gaudi 3 in April 2024 , so you won't be getting the latest 
hardware. ServeTheHome broke down some of the costs of the advertised server, 
noting, The interesting part about this is that it is still using an Ice Lake 
Xeon platform, so it is on PCIe Gen4 and lower-cost DDR4 memory. The list 
price for the Intel Xeon Platinum 8368 processors is $7214 each. Those 64GB 
DIMMs usually price out in new systems at around $3000-$3200 for 16 of them. 
There is probably another $1500-2000 in SSD content and a bit more for the 
NVIDIA ConenctX-6 VPI NIC. We only have one of those NICs because Gaudi 2 
uses its onboard 100GbE networking directly from the AI accelerators. (Image 
credit: Supermicro) More from TechRadar Pro A US supercomputer with 8,000 
Intel Xeon CPUs is being auctioned Nvidia has opened the doors to one of the 
world's fastest supercomputers Intel has a new rival to Nvidia's uber-popular 
H100 AI GPU  meet Gaudi3



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/missed-out-on-the-dollar500000-cheyenne-supercom
puter-deal-supermicro-has-an-intel-server-offer-that-you-cant-refuse-eight-gau
di-2-ai-accelerators-76-cores-1tb-of-ram-and-100gbe-for-just-dollar90000


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