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