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Gomibushi
Asked: 2010-05-17 11:38:51 +0800 CST

What do you do with a 15 node decommissioned Itanium cluster?

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We are decommissioning a 15 node Itanium cluster.

We don't know what to do with it. Being geeks we want to put it (or its individual nodes) to some cool use, but since it is Itanium we are a bit unsure what that could/would be.

We are not bringing it back as production servers and we are considering giving them away, if anyone wants them.

It's not the most spiffy hardware, but being 2U rack servers they pack an ok amount of cpu and memory, they're about 3 years old perhaps.

Ideas to what runs well on them? Or something one can use them as?

itanium

4 Answers

  1. How about contacting the Computer Society at a nearby University?

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  2. How about a BOINC cluster?

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  3. They would definitely be of interest to various parts of the OpenVMS community, since the Itanium is the only currently produced processor supported by OpenVMS.

    Oh yeah, I'll take two of them... :-)

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  4. Use them as office heating in the winter ;) .

    High thermal heating efficiency and (if needed) even a little number crunching. Or better: have them on as heater in the winter and donate the cycles to folding(at)home ;)

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