Recently rescued a 24-core 2.5 GHz Xeon workstation with 64 GB RAM from retirement. Quadro card comes tomorrow.

What do I do with this thing?

Replace my 8-core Xeon for AWIPS with it
15.4%
Run it as a GIS machine
0%
Use it as an all-purpose server (builds, etc.)
38.5%
Play Counter-Strike
46.2%
Poll ended at .
Well, I’m throwing NWS AWIPS on it this weekend to see if the extra cores outweigh the slower clock speed (my current AWIPS box is a single-processor hyper-threaded 3.5 GHz quad core Xeon). Theory is that I should get better performance given CAVE’s reliance on worker threads.
Oh, and the power supply is *only* 685 watts 😂
@jaredwsmith 5. Plug it into an outlet in the spare room as a heater 🤪 (nice machine, but I think those have 850W or larger power supplies!)
@jaredwsmith slap proxmox on it and:
- play counter strike on one VM
- install home assistant on another VM so you can automate your house so that it's efficient enough to offset the wattage being sucked down by that power supply