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by h2odragon 775 days ago
> the system is currently experiencing maintenance limitations due to faulty quick disconnects causing water spray. Given the expense and downtime associated with rectifying this issue in the last six months of operation, it's deemed more detrimental than the anticipated failure rate of compute nodes.

Even the RAM has aged out...

Very hard to justify running any of this; newer kit pays for itself in reduced power and maintenance quick in comparison.
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Tempest1981 775 days ago
Are you trying to discourage others from bidding, so you can swoop in and win the auction?
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h2odragon 774 days ago
nah, i already have far more junk computers than i need.

I lusted after a Cray T3E once that I coulda had for $1k and trucking it across TN and NC; but even then I couldn't have run it. I'm two miles away from 3 phase power and even then couldn't have justified the power budget. At the time a slightly less scrap UltraSPARC 6k beat it up on running costs even with higher initial costs so i went with that instead. I did find a bunch of Alphas to do the byte swizzling tho. Ex "Titanic" render farm nodes.

I've been away from needing low budget big compute for a while, but having spent a few years watching the space i still can't help but go "ooo neat" and wonder what i could do with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_T3E

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