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Practically all providers if you have money to spend...
You can buy supercomputers that run on scientific Linux OSes
Almost all brands sell them from IBM to HPE. They just cost millions and more millions. These generally cost from 100K to above hundred or hundreds of millions.
Then you have smaller scalable options like POWER8 and POWER9 and Power10 that do not cost a fortune by default.
If you are building HPE Cray EX, here are the MSRP prices. https://itprice.com/hp/cray-hardware-2184
I can get it a bit cheaper for you, but my consulting fee for this will be from 50k up and it wont come assembled.
As for quantum computers.. Dream on lol. You need licence for the experimental models (depending on where you live) unless you invent and build one yourself. Instead you can rent a remote access to one rather easily for not too much money.
Every six months, the ISC High Performance conference publishes a list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. This is probably the best source you can find to identify the most powerful computers that you seek. Most of these systems are custom sized and designed according to the customer's needs. The most recent list was published last month, June 2022. See:
https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/
https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2022/06/
Some very powerful computers are not on the list. Their power, capabilities, and uses are classified by the governments that own and use them.
There are an infinite number of ways to define and measure "compute power." The Top500 list is only one example. Some time ago, I worked on a large scale multi-year project. Our company won the contract because our bid was based on projected lower costs of computers with equivalent performance at delivery time, which was several years away. One issue that arose was that everyone had to agree on how to measure the performance of the current computer models. We needed those measurements to confirm that the future delivered computers were comparable to them. In this case, "computer performance" meant more than just raw compute power. It was no easy feat. Three different parties had to agree on those benchmark standards - our company, the computer manufacturer, and the end customer. That benchmarking activity took a lot of time and effort, as you may imagine.
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Since you said "buy", the above answers are very good. There are ridiculously powerful specialised supercomputers that I know very little about.
In terms of "regular" computers, you could go onto a site like Lenovo's or Dell's and max everything out. For example, a maxed out ThinkSystem SR670 (including 4TB RAM as 32x 128GB RAM modules, several NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB RAM each, and 4x 2400W power supplies) will easily exceed $300,000.
In terms of rental from regular hosting companies, I suspect you'll find "cloud" systems that are more powerful than individual dedicated servers, as a cloud workload could be spread across multiple physical servers.
On ServerHunter.com, exoscale.com comes up as the most expensive. They have a server with 96 cores, 448GB RAM, 8 NVIDIA A40 GPUs (each with 48 GB GDDR6 and 300W power) and 1.6TB SSD storage for 11,318.55 EUR / Month or 15.72 EUR / Hour
That looks like a real deal!
Definitely @cociu , DMCA ignored and DDoS proof.
We all know how and why.
Rust proof too because we all know why.
Those platinums are overrated.
FDC sells some humongous servers. Ovh also.
In terms of compute power, @Clouvider has latest generation EPYC but only 16 cores; you may get 64-core CPU if you prepay several years.
In terms of storage, nobody can beat Deep Atlantic Storage, unlimited storage for free!
I would've believed this if the web page wasn't so 1995.
The webpage is written in 2021.
Look at the source - there's no
<hgroup>ordocument.querySelectorin 1995.Thanks for the replies. I didn't mean super computers though
But just the beefiest "regular" servers one can buy from a data center.
Do you mean rent? You generally don't buy servers from data centers unless it's a rent-to-own offer (which isn't very common any more).
The $11k/month one from exoscale I mentioned earlier is the most expensive one I've seen so far:
yes I meant rent. Wow that's a beast!
Does the blink tag still work?
You can easily get above 30k/m even with OVH offerings. Just add tons of disks to one of their dedicated server offers.
Edit: nvm. its no longer 2017 lol
hetzner for sure
If your goal is to drive up cost, loading up in the latest GPUs and also some fancy storage (fusion-io drives, etc.) will certainly be the way. Oh, and don't forget multiple 10gbps uplinks.