Vendor lists $60M AI supercomputer on eBay
An IT vendor has listed a $60 million AI supercomputer for sale on eBay. The listing covers 300 racks of decommissioned GPUs, meaning retired graphics chips, including 9,600 Nvidia A100 GPUs and 4,200 AMD EPYC CPUs. Free shipping is offered.
Quick glossaryeBay, AI supercomputer, GPUs
- eBay
- A large online marketplace where people and businesses buy and sell goods, often through auctions or fixed prices.
- AI supercomputer
- A huge group of linked computers built to train and run large AI systems much faster than normal machines.
- GPUs
- Specialised computer chips that handle many calculations at the same time, which makes them ideal for AI work.
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