What to do with 8 core server???

[baxtmann]

Hey guys,

i have a 8 (16 hyperthread cores) core server, that im using for mainly jsut Folding@Home, and my plex media server. I have so much un-used compute power, and I was wondering about if there were any interesting programs i could play around with that use a lot of cores.... any ideas??

[KezzaMcFezza]

Run 5 instances of GTA 5 on 5 VM's

 

EDIT: lol Jk. you can use it for a bitcoin mine?

[jol159]

3 minutes ago, baxtmann said:

Hey guys,

i have a 16 core server, that im using for mainly jsut Folding@Home, and my plex media server. I have so much un-used compute power, and I was wondering about if there were any interesting programs i could play around with that use a lot of cores.... any ideas??

you could use it as a rendering server with autodesk maya or blender

 

[baxtmann]

5 minutes ago, ProKeero said:

Run 5 instances of GTA 5 on 5 VM's

 

EDIT: lol Jk. you can use it for a bitcoin mine?

Its a server with the worlds worst integrated graphics lol. No GTA5

[KezzaMcFezza]

Just now, baxtmann said:

Its a server with the worlds worst integrated graphics lol. No GTA5

Lol not even a quadro?

 

[Coaxialgamer]

9 minutes ago, baxtmann said:

Hey guys,

i have a 16 core server, that im using for mainly jsut Folding@Home, and my plex media server. I have so much un-used compute power, and I was wondering about if there were any interesting programs i could play around with that use a lot of cores.... any ideas??

What cpu are you running ? Dual cpu ? Xeon ? Opteron ?

[baxtmann]

Just now, Coaxialgamer said:

What cpu are you running ? Dual cpu ? Xeon ? Opteron ?

Intel Xeon E5520 @2.27GHz, and i have 2 of them in the server

[IPickle]

You could make a few VMs so you can have multiple thin clients around the house. Saves power and the clutter of having multiple PCs around the house.

[DarkBlade2117]

Host me a minecraft server
You'd only ever need to dedicate a 4th of what the machine is capable of lol

Or yeah, rendering is cool I guess and folding@home is always a good cause.

[baxtmann]

9 minutes ago, IPickle said:

You could make a few VMs so you can have multiple thin clients around the house. Saves power and the clutter of having multiple PCs around the house.

Funny story about minecraft, the integrated graphics are unreconized by Minecraft lmao

[IPickle]

Just now, baxtmann said:

Funny story about minecraft, the integrated graphics are unreconized by Minecraft lmao

1 like = 1 prayer rofl

[Jambls]

Why do you have a dual cpu server that you are not using?

[baxtmann]

2 minutes ago, Jambls said:

Why do you have a dual cpu server that you are not using?

Heh, cause my work got rid of a bunch of old servers, so i "borrowed" one lol

[Jambls]

Just now, baxtmann said:

Heh, cause my work got rid of a bunch of old servers, so i "borrowed" one lol

Fair enough. Personally, I would run a game server off it.

[potoooooooo]

Plex?

 

Nas?

[baxtmann]

13 hours ago, potoooooooo said:

Plex?

 

Nas?

Already using it as both of those lol

[Tyrius]

You are running folding@home and still have unused compute power? You could always just have it run harder, for the good of humanity that is

Also I agree with running a few servers for you and your friends. You could also run a web/mail server, or a server that lets you access your nas files from outside the network.

 

If you still need something to put it to work, having a look at the encryption/compression options of your nas software is always worth it, as both saving space (and therefore real $ worth of harddisks) and securing your data is great, and only heavily depends on the compute power to do them in real time. (Depending on the hardware I have seen scenarios where the nas transfer speeds were limited by the harddrives, and compressing the data actually made it go faster :D)

[KezzaMcFezza]

33 minutes ago, vaporwavesss said:

Who puts a GPU in a server? let alone a quadro. Unless you're running something like a citrix farm or a rendering farm

Lol just for the lols.

[TheRandomness]

On 12/03/2016 at 2:03 PM, ProKeero said:

Run 5 instances of GTA 5 on 5 VM's

 

EDIT: lol Jk. you can use it for a bitcoin mine?

Hell fuck no.

[Mikensan]

Anything you're interesting in learning about? Virtualization etc...? Setup a desktop that you can access over the web - great for when your company blocks sites... you just log in at home and go crazy.

[Matioupi]

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

 

(ok, this is quite similar to folder@home... maybe a little more generic)

 

you can also learn to configure some software such as HTCondor ( https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/ )

for setting up your own computing pool (not sure it's so easy to join existing pools without BOINC, which can be "plugged" in  HT Condor as a fall-over for CPU time)

HT Condor can be used to parallelize all kind of computations that are addressed from "command line utilities with parameters" (and more)

 

Also, what kind of internet connection do you have to this machine ?

[baxtmann]

21 hours ago, Matioupi said:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

 

(ok, this is quite similar to folder@home... maybe a little more generic)

 

you can also learn to configure some software such as HTCondor ( https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/ )

for setting up your own computing pool (not sure it's so easy to join existing pools without BOINC, which can be "plugged" in  HT Condor as a fall-over for CPU time)

HT Condor can be used to parallelize all kind of computations that are addressed from "command line utilities with parameters" (and more)

 

Also, what kind of internet connection do you have to this machine ?

i have like 1mb/s down and up with like 700ms ping. Its really bad