Tag: accelerators

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

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 […]

Iran to send experts to ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators

CARACAS (Reuters) – Iran on Saturday said it will send experts to its ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators in hospitals it said had been stopped due to Western sanctions. Venezuela requested Iran’s help, according to a message on the social media platform X by the Iranian government attributed to the head of the […]