If you had the money what server stuff would you buy?

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If you won the lottery, what would you buy SERVER WISE?
Server:


Server Rack:



I would use that server for website hosting and renting out "areas" of it (60 CPUs per customer!) .
Server rack is sound proof.
21 thousand all that would come to.

Sod servers - if I won the lottery I'd buy an aeroplane. And a yacht. And a mansion. And I'd quit my job so I'd have no need for servers.

As it is I only spend other people's money on servers. Dell has our business at the moment. Mostly PowerEdge R series. I have a small rack in the office but most of the equipment is in a data centre where connectivity, robust power, connectivity, fire suppression, security etc are easier to provide. No need for soundproof racks there - no-one works full time on the floor, but ear plugs are a good idea when you visit.

This is ridiculous. Let's just say that the server I'd build would easily rival the processing power of the Cray Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nothing fancy, just a cluster of Dell towers, each filled to the brim with these:



I don't know exactly what I'd do with a huge FPGA array, but I imagine it's the sort of thing where it becomes clear to you after you get one.

This is a bit of an interesting thread for me, because I actually *do* have money to throw around on servers.

We're looking at getting a few of these:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/syst ... -H8TRF.cfm

With a couple of these thrown in:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/syst ... ST-6LR.cfm

And, to tie it all off, a couple of these:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9310/index.html

As for what we'd use it for, that's being kept hush-hush for now

Build my own and install Linux Which is the most awesome OS ever.

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I would put alot of NVIDIA Tesla graphics card in it and some really tough hardware >:D

i would get an original PDP-10 refurbished just for the fun of it



i would finally be able to make a movie style mad laboratory (oh yes the labraty itself will be mad as a hatter)

Admittedly, I do have a pile of elderly SPARC hardware downstairs, and the first thing I did on getting access to a proper computer at university many years ago was calculate pi to fifty thousand decimal places...

but of almost infinite value if in working or semi corking condition, i saw a whole array at the bohr institutes "museum".
they got it used as a donation for making astronomical calculations.

it was ni working condition and there is nothing cooler than seeing the printer output status display, the rathecy sound and the constant whirl of memory tape, ahh.

Another good choice would be an IBM System/360. Though as I understand it IBM destroyed almost all of them. According to Wikipedia there are only 5 left in the world... and it doesn't sound like any of them work.



Oh how is wish I lived back in the days when 'desktop computer' may have meant that the computer had a built in desktop surface!