Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do With Half a Rack of Server Space? 208
New submitter Christian Gainsbrugh (3766717) writes I work at a company that is currently transitioning all our servers into the cloud. In the interim we have half a rack of server space in a great datacenter that will soon be sitting completely idle for the next few months until our lease runs out. Right now the space is occupied by around 8 HP g series servers, a watchguard xtm firewall, Cisco switch and some various other equipment. All in all there are probably around 20 or so physical XEON processors, and probably close to 10 tb of storage among all the machines. We have a dedicated 10 mbs connection that is burstable to 100mbs.
I'm curious what Slashdot readers would do if they were in a similar situation. Is there anything productive that could be done with these resources? Obviously something revenue generating is great, but even if there is something novel that could be done with these servers we would be interested in putting them to good use.
I'm curious what Slashdot readers would do if they were in a similar situation. Is there anything productive that could be done with these resources? Obviously something revenue generating is great, but even if there is something novel that could be done with these servers we would be interested in putting them to good use.
of course (Score:5, Funny)
City Agriculture (Score:5, Funny)
Make a mini-grow-op.They'll never flag the extra power used for lamps.
Re:porn (Score:4, Funny)
This is just half a rack... I'm more of a full rack guy.
mbs/Mbs (Score:5, Funny)
I doubt you can do much with a 10 milli-bit per second connection...
(Sorry, but I'm a scientist, units are important to me...)
Beer! (Score:4, Funny)