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I use old HP Proliant as a workstation. For $900 you get 24 cores and 256GB RAM. Its pretty loud and power inefficient, but works great for testing concurrent
by jkot 11y ago
I use old HP Proliant as a workstation. For $900 you get 24 cores and 256GB RAM. Its pretty loud and power inefficient, but works great for testing concurrent and memory intensive code.
- PeCaN 11y agoWoah. Where did you get it? Sounds cool. Do you run HP-UX on it or does some common Linux distro run well?
- arde 11y agoLinux works fine.
- jkot 11y agoEbay. It runs Lubuntu, I develop java
- mappu 11y agoSome similar machines (HP Proliant, 24 cores, 256GB ram) on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/381566357980 http://www.ebay.com/itm/381566357980 That's 1500USD. I'm sure 900USD is possible if you keep an eye out, seems like a pretty sharp deal though.
- eb0la 11y agoAnd you can have a nice tensorflow box stuffing this puppy with 3-4 nvidia cards ;-).