My home server has an i7 4790K, 32GB DDR3 and... a GTX 1080 Gamer Edition that's doing... well, bugger all. Why is the graphics card in there you might ask? Well, it was sitting on my desk collecting dust as I wait patiently for a Pascal driver for eGPUs on macOS but Nvidia had delayed these for long enough that I thought I'd chuck it in my home server, it is being used by ffmpeg for x265/HVEC transcoding with Plex media server but I'm really not even touching it's capabilities - not even close when transcoding a 120GB+ 4K 120FPS video and streaming it wirelessly to my TV that's running a Plex client. The server is running CentOS 7 and has 10x 8TB SATA drives in BTRFS RAID 10 for storage, two Intel NVMe 750 series 1.2 TB SSDs for the OS as well as a couple of 2TB Crucial MX300 SATA SSDs that aren't currently in use for much.

So, I have been sitting here wondering how I can make better use of it while it's practically parked in my server while I wait for some Pascal drivers to drop. I'm not so interested in robots / live video processing but it'd be neat if I could leverage its power for something fun or to assist the servers compute performance in some other ways that might be useful or interesting. I was running KVM with PCIe pass through passing the GPU to a guest VM running Steam as a steam streaming box but I got sick of having an OS on the network that I had to worry about Virus's, Malware and annoyingly slow and unreliable updates being installed when you least want it to happen and I got lazy and went back to playing PlayStation when I needed some time out from constructive work / research.

Open to ideas to any software I could tinker with if anyone has any interesting suggestions?