I placed a low bid on an auction for 25 Elitedesk 800 G1s on a government auction and unexpectedly won (ultimately paying less than $20 per computer)

In the long run I plan on selling 15 or so of them to friends and family for cheap, and I’ll probably have 4 with Proxmox, 3 for a lab cluster and 1 for the always-on home server and keep a few for spares and random desktops around the house where I could use one.

But while I have all 25 of them what crazy clustering software/configurations should I run? Any fun benchmarks I should know about that I could run for the lolz?

Edit to add:

Specs based on the auction listing and looking computer models:

  • 4th gen i5s (probably i5-4560s or similar)
  • 8GB of DDR3 RAM
  • 256GB SSDs
  • Windows 10 Pro (no mention of licenses, so that remains to be seen)
  • Looks like 3 PCIe Slots (2 1x and 2 16x physically, presumably half-height)

Possible projects I plan on doing:

  • Proxmox cluster
  • Baremetal Kubernetes cluster
  • Harvester HCI cluster (which has the benefit of also being a Rancher cluster)
  • Automated Windows Image creation, deployment and testing
  • Pentesting lab
  • Multi-site enterprise network setup and maintenance
  • Linpack benchmark then compare to previous TOP500 lists
  • @ulternoEnglish
    0•7 months ago

    those wizards must be streaming some Hella fast Tokyo banddrifts with all them wires.

    That part is wrong for India, at least.
    Here’s a random site with some stats
    India, you can expect ~100Mb/s with FTTH and 50Mb/s otherwise. Reliability is even worse.

    Rest is right.

      • @ulternoEnglish
        0•7 months ago

        And Japan has a 300+ Tb/s connection. Your point?
        My point is that the average Indian is not doing “Hella fast Tokyo banddrifts” (not sure what banddrift even means, but no).

        And yes, a 1Gb/s connection is theoretically available, but how many people are using the ~₹4000/month connection?

        Considering how many people tend to just not have Broadband at home, relying just on mobile internet, we can see how things compare with others.

        Also, to point to the tread starter, most of the “thousands of” cables that you see on poles in congested areas, are just abandoned cables from older installations which nobody cared to remove.

        • @MenacingPerson@lemm.eeEnglish
          1•7 months ago

          Also ~100Mb/s is in no way the average speed in an Indian household. It’s usually lower. I also don’t see any specific mentions of india in your link up there to that random site.

          • @ulternoEnglish
            0•7 months ago

            Also ~100Mb/s is in no way the average speed in an Indian household.

            You’re right. It’s not.

            I also don’t see any specific mentions of india in your link up there to that random site.

            I don’t see any either. Guess why. Because it only has the top 10, further emphasising the point that :

            the average Indian is not doing “Hella fast Tokyo banddrifts”