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I just won an auction for 25 computers. What should I setup on them? (reddthat.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I placed a low bid on an auction for 25 Elitedesk 800 G1s on a government auction and unexpectedly won (ultimately paying less than $20 per computer)

In the long run I plan on selling 15 or so of them to friends and family for cheap, and I'll probably have 4 with Proxmox, 3 for a lab cluster and 1 for the always-on home server and keep a few for spares and random desktops around the house where I could use one.

But while I have all 25 of them what crazy clustering software/configurations should I run? Any fun benchmarks I should know about that I could run for the lolz?

Edit to add:

Specs based on the auction listing and looking computer models:

4th gen i5s (probably i5-4560s or similar)
8GB of DDR3 RAM
256GB SSDs
Windows 10 Pro (no mention of licenses, so that remains to be seen)
Looks like 3 PCIe Slots (2 1x and 2 16x physically, presumably half-height)

Possible projects I plan on doing:

Proxmox cluster
Baremetal Kubernetes cluster
Harvester HCI cluster (which has the benefit of also being a Rancher cluster)
Automated Windows Image creation, deployment and testing
Pentesting lab
Multi-site enterprise network setup and maintenance
Linpack benchmark then compare to previous TOP500 lists

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hmm, get 25 monitors and friends and play one of those starship bridge simulators like https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I volunteered as tribute to be one of these 'Friends'

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You made me remember PULSAR - Lost Colony which is a decent iteration of co-op space bridge sim!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/252870/PULSAR_Lost_Colony/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwj0mZ6uoNSFAxW9K0QIHcXLC0QQFnoECAUQAg&usg=AOvVaw0CFefNXsaZDgCiaIDnHoF1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh, that one was a blast! I need to get my nerd herd to revisit it... Although all we did was play liars dice while the ship was on fire.