eBay lists supercomputer for $60 million — with free shipping
An unusual listing has appeared on a popular online marketplace: buyers are offered a massive computing complex previously used in a data center.
On eBay, the company Core 4 Solutions has listed a computing complex for artificial intelligence tasks at $59.7 million. The equipment is sold used, and buyers can make their own offers.
The scale of the lot is significantly different from typical purchases on the marketplace. The complex occupies 300 server racks and includes 9,600 Nvidia A100 accelerators, 4,200 AMD EPYC Rome processors, and approximately 1.4 PB of RAM. The total number of processor cores reaches 268,800.
Each rack contains four computing nodes. Each node is equipped with eight A100 accelerators with 40 GB of memory per accelerator, two 64-core EPYC processors, and 1 TB of DDR4-2933 RAM. Additionally, there are three management servers—also with two processors each, but with 192 GB of RAM per server.
The mentioned 1.4 PB refers to the servers' RAM. The accelerators have their own video memory: a total of 384 TB for the entire complex.
Despite the size of the purchase, the listing specifies standard delivery options: free pickup in Minneapolis or free shipping via FedEx Ground/Home Delivery. Thus, for nearly $60 million, buyers are offered a computing infrastructure consisting of hundreds of racks—through the same platform where individual components are typically ordered.
