Just $129K? My bank certainly will give me a loan for the other 128K I'm missing 😀

hehe honestly, it's an easy business plan. If you can get the bank to give you the money, it will be earned in the right amount of time. Can't imagine a single super computer not running all the time, and with higher efficiency you can increase your profit margin during operation hours, I think.

It's also possible to get the DGX box that has 4 Tesla V100 cards for about $69,000, and the individual PCI-E cards will be much less for home grown systems.

Sporting the new NVIDIA Tesla V100 with Tensor Core technology for $69,000 you can own a dedicated system for about the same price as 1-year of cloud instance pricing. For example, an AWS p3.8xlarge instance with all up-front pricing is $68301 for 1-year.

https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-dgx-station-upgraded-tesla-v100/

The fun thing about this is that we can soon finally build a world dominating Supercomputer AI that's located in a couple of stacks of shipping containers in some decrepit old corner of a huge harbor near a hydropower station and/or solar farm LOL...and only for a Billion bitcoin...dystopian future here we come!

StewieTech:

When i think supercomputers i think humanity enslaved. And thats no fun. But really those bad boys are getting smart by the minute...

I think skynet or that donald sutherland movie virus where it decided we are ones destrying everything... funnny haha aside, i do see super computer doing something similar. The efficacy is really nice imo