What to do with 40 unused servers? :)
 

So what would you do with 40 unused dual Xeon servers? They are racked in the datacenter but doing nothing at the moment; leftovers from a client.
If you have a nice idea spam it or contact me. I'm open for something new :)

tubes, man.

40 niche tubes.

Sell them.

Have 100k to invest?

Damn, that's a lot of Texas Hold 'em Facebook app servers ;)

Talk to some disenfranchised RCN clients.

Too bad I don't at the moment.

Didn't got an email from them yet :D

Until you come up with something, why not donate their computational power here:
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp

Helping out possibly curing cancer, dengue fever or similar can't be a bad thing. Better that than just having them sit totally unemployed, according to me at least. :)

Hey, if you're interested in putting up an enormous legal tube filled with some content that isn't everywhere on earth let me know how to get in touch with you. Videos would range from short to long and the site would be unique. It would also focus on a pretty damn good sponsor. :)

Cheers

Unrack them and donate them to a local school and replace them with better/newer hardware.

Or try to build a folding cluster/seti/relatedwhateveryoucanfind.

ADG

video encoding farm

massive tube

I can help you fill those up

start hosting game servers

good morning.....
 

Thanks for all the reactions! It's really nice to see what could be done and to get some fresh ideas!

Thats a very good idea, I've looked at it as well and if I don't find a pupose for the servers quick I might do that.


I've added you on IRC let's talk there. Sounds interesting!


I don't have any video's to encode. Would it perhaps be interesting to build a commercial video encoding farm so people can rent time on a cluster to encode video?


Contacted you on IRC.


I'm not really into gaming and there are a lot of big gaming company's over here in NL already.