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BOM · Bill of Materials

The itemized list of every part in a system or build; design changes ripple through it into cost, lead times, and power budgets.

Current numbers

576 GPUs / SUNVIDIA GB200 SuperPOD scalable unit (8 systems); a 16-SU, 9,216-GPU cluster needs a three-tier switch BOM on the order of 1,000 boxesas of 2025 · register ↗
~$13.6k/servercombined host-BOM trim on a training server — 2 TB → 1 TB RAM plus a host-CPU downgrade and dropping two BlueField-3 DPUs; RAM the trainer never usedas of 2024 · register ↗

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