Ask HN: Creative uses for retiring HPC servers?

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I have about 20 numbers of

HS22 blades, each with

2 X Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v2 @ 3.50GHz - total of 8 cores per blade

128 GB of memory.

70 GB of spinning disk.

1Gbps networking

Can you think of any creative uses for doing non-critical work on these servers?

1. Power is not a concern.

2. I'm not mining any coins.

3. I'm not particularly interested in hosting network mirrors for anything-

Looking for something that can be indirectly useful to our users (research group), or something that can be a learning experience for myself (Sysadmin).

So far, I have thought of

1. IpyParallel - expose all these servers through a single Jupyterhub server.

2. Kubernetes / Singularity play cluster - learning experience for me.

What else do you think I can do with them?

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