RobertTheSwede

Seems fair. I started a newer xeon and a i7 with the same task and they kind of smushed the old servers power, with only 2 or 3 cores dedicated to mining... Well technically we only have the right to have one server there, I think tops 4-6u or something. But since most people don't bother we can get away with several rack mounted of pretty much any size (reasonable for one student though) and several towers as well. Getting static ip's, however, is limited. We have one each upon request, and you may get two or three given a good reason, otherwise you're expected to setup your own NAT, etc. The association that manages the server room, https://www.ludd.ltu.se/w2/index.php/Main_Page, is built by and maintained by students and employees of the university. They host a variety of project that, if you're in on it, gets different rules. Heck I think they currently have a full openstack setup running just to learn. Go Luleå Tekniska Universitet! https://www.ltu.se/?l=en

Given that I have access to practically free power I decided to try to mine riecoin. It seems riecoin is still ok to mine on cpu. I installed ubuntu 18.04 server on it and connected it to riepool.ovh. Will let you know how it goes! It seems I reach a hashrate of around 1500KH/s with 7 threads. (Leaving one core free to do everything else) It seems the others easily reach tens of thousands KH/s. Is it expected that my setup is this bad or am I missing something?

Funny you should mention that, and that I forgot to say: I do have access to a data center/server room, gigabit connection and power for essentially free. (Membership is 15 bucks a year (yeah!) and computer spots in the room are included. Static ip-s as well. Perks of being a student in northern Sweden. So I was wrong on the hyper-threading, interesting. This leaves me 8 cores. I see that this may not be as a cool computer as I thought

See at that price I doubt it will be cost effective to sell it, as ive spent almost 35 bucks on parts, and I live in the waaaaaay north of sweden. Shipping to pretty much anywhere from here would most likely cost at a super minimum 100 bucks... But maybe I can find a local buyer

Whats a fair price on ebay for this server you'd think? The calculations I've done have all been related to space physics, but that era is mostly done now for me. Are there any program one can give up resources to for research like this? Haha yeah Plex is also on my freenas server. But good idea! What would you say of price?

As title says: I fixed a HP ML370 G5 server that I got for free when broken. (Mainly a broken PSU). It has two quad core CPUs (Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5440 (2.83 GHz, 80 Watts, 1333 FSB), hyperthreaded so a total of 16 threads. 64GB ECC RAM. See this link for more info on hardware: https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/Getdocument.aspx?docname=c04282493 So now what? If you had this computer, what would you do? I was thinking to maybe put a matlab compute node on it, as I do sometimes work in matlab for my research at the university. But I doubt that it will be of any gain since my main computer already has a 3.5GHz hexa core xeon E5. Note: I already have a hyper-visor server running for all my VMs (and has power to spare). I have a freenas running at home with mirrored disks and one similar server at a server hall as an offsite backup. I also have HP DL360 G5 that has the same story, got it for free broken, fixed it and now I don't know what to do with it... I guess I like fixing broken things. Any ideas are welcome! /Robert