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4 node Dell C6100 Server 736gb total ram 48 total intel/xeon cores - $500 (Englewood)
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Machine Is a bit cranky, slow to boot if she hasn’t had power in a while (or after a power failure) 192gb in 3 nodes, 160gb in the 4th. All nodes have both cpus (Xeon E5645’s) in them. 24 bay drive cage out front, I popped in 4 old spinners to show the machine boots and works - windows 11 pro for workstations on all 4 drives… Machine gets along with Suse and Ubuntu very well and it tolerates windows
All nodes have 2x 1gb Ethernet and 1x mellanox connectx3 25gb qsfp network interface.. BMC in chassis, didn’t play much but IPMI seems to actually still be somewhat functional (farted around with an Ubuntu 24 boot stick).
History of the machine: It started life at the bottom of a cell tower, then I had it for a while, then I loaned it out to handle IPTV for a motel and sports bar, then it came back, then it got traded to paul, now I have just gone through it again… Won’t give it a clean bill of health - it’s got the usual quirks… Slots are in good shape - pair of fairly fresh (within the past couple of years) 1100watt power supplies in her. In her lifetime, the only thing I have ever known the slots were used for was a dell c410x expansion chassis (not included) that was running video conversion tasks from 16x fpga s (not GPU s)
I figure the 750 it goes for on eBay is too much — 500 as is, is fair and saves me the hassle of configuring it yet again .. nitpicky stuff like 1 lock screw missing or 1 mezzanine card that doesn’t like to let a qsfp connector loose without futzing is about all I found wrong with it -
Drives I threw in it are spinners but all 24 caddies are there and it most definitely gets along with normal SSD drives in either the SAS or SATA flavors — ask nice and I may have a monkey cable around if you are wanting to cluster the machine (pcie pass-through works but in era limited degree - same for NUMA across nodes)
If you want to talk to the owners guy who knows nothing about computers but can take payment other than cash and likely arrange shipping, his number is show contact info
If you want to talk to the nerd going through these machines for them and can pay cash and pickup in Englewood, My number is show contact info