Yaay I can contribute now that I got an invite! My home lab is currently offline due to me just moving and not having the time to put it back up but when it was up I experimented with DIY...
Yaay I can contribute now that I got an invite!
My home lab is currently offline due to me just moving and not having the time to put it back up but when it was up I experimented with DIY HPC/parallelization a whole lot. It came in handy to have a number crunching system as I played around with some simulations. The greatest part is that I got most of the parts for virtually no cost due to them being scrap servers, old IBM x3550 M3's which were originally used as SAN volume controllers. I've now got a total of 7 of them and some other ancient scrap server acting as a head node. 4 more kitted out x3560's are waiting for me so I'll need to put up the lab eventually but currently it is exam season so it might be a while.
If you're interested in getting actual enterprise equipment then I'd really recommend just writing to suppliers/providers in your area if they have any scrap laying around in their warehouses. For example these x3560's I got for 10 euro per piece. Pretty much the worst they can say is "no". With that said I would also like to mention that if you intend to have such equipment on at all times, get ready for a laaaarge electricity bill. My lab was off when not in use but could be turned on via IPMI and smart power sockets remotely. Oh and they act like electric furnaces essentially. Others in this topic posted a solution that I too think is perfectly suited and that would be a NUC. More power than an RPi and still quiet and power efficient.
Currently plan on running a simple web server via nginx from my RPi3. Might set it up to host files as well. So really boring at the moment :)
Yaay I can contribute now that I got an invite!
My home lab is currently offline due to me just moving and not having the time to put it back up but when it was up I experimented with DIY HPC/parallelization a whole lot. It came in handy to have a number crunching system as I played around with some simulations. The greatest part is that I got most of the parts for virtually no cost due to them being scrap servers, old IBM x3550 M3's which were originally used as SAN volume controllers. I've now got a total of 7 of them and some other ancient scrap server acting as a head node. 4 more kitted out x3560's are waiting for me so I'll need to put up the lab eventually but currently it is exam season so it might be a while.
If you're interested in getting actual enterprise equipment then I'd really recommend just writing to suppliers/providers in your area if they have any scrap laying around in their warehouses. For example these x3560's I got for 10 euro per piece. Pretty much the worst they can say is "no". With that said I would also like to mention that if you intend to have such equipment on at all times, get ready for a laaaarge electricity bill. My lab was off when not in use but could be turned on via IPMI and smart power sockets remotely. Oh and they act like electric furnaces essentially. Others in this topic posted a solution that I too think is perfectly suited and that would be a NUC. More power than an RPi and still quiet and power efficient.
Currently plan on running a simple web server via nginx from my RPi3. Might set it up to host files as well. So really boring at the moment :)