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Re:HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k by outsomnia on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:17AM (#24281708)
They are just aarch64 cores like in your phone, not a "formula 1 engine". I think it's a really tough sell.

For around the same money you can buy 512 cores of modern AMD x86_64 (4 x 128 core, ~$5000 ea) AND 4 x rtx8000 gpu, 18,000 CUDA compute cores (also ~$5000 ea)

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Re:HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k by dman on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:47AM (#24281911)
They are the only cores you can buy right now with the SVE extensions - so not exactly equivalent too the phone cores.
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Re:HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k by numpad0 on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @09:16AM (#24282155)
It’s actually Fujitsu’s former SPARC core modified to take AArch64 instructions, or at least that’s the story
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