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0 pointsgabrielhidasy1y ago0 comments

r/homelab will have a field-day getting those nodes up, some people will want just one for practicality, some people will want at least a couple and a IB switch just for the novelty of it.

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jeffbee1y ago

I can't imagine anyone from r/homelab has an SGI 8600 E-cell laying around that they could slap these blades into.

gh02t1y ago

I can imagine it, some people on there are ridiculous, but yeah in my experience these supercomputer nodes are a lot more integrated/proprietary than most standard server hardware. It's not straightforward to just boot one up without all the support infrastructure. I'd assume they'd mostly be torn down and parted out.

bombcar1y ago

You might be surprised - because they're pretty custom they are often "more open" than you might expect; as long as you have the connectors you can often get things running something. Sometimes they have bog-standard features present on the boards, just not enabled, etc.

It's the commoditized blade servers, etc that are stripped down to what they need to run and nothing more.

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