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by Tichy 6223 days ago
Hm, why not find something to do with the remaining cycles?
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SETI @ Home? :)

The customer hardware is IBM xSeries (3950's), with modular, stackable components, much like a stack of switches. It could be broken up into smaller servers and re-used on other projects.

In a production database!?
I was assuming in a modern "cloudy" setup, processing power and storage is all kind of fluent. Or if it isn't yet, might be worthwhile to make it so? They could set it up all with virtual machines and stuff?