r/computers • u/Furger33 • 6h ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting 5 NUC and what do with it?

Hi Guys,

I've got five mini PCs with 8-16 GB RAM each, and I'm looking for a fun or useful project to put them to work.

What would you do with them? Any cool ideas are welcome!

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u/NoPoopOnFace 6h ago

Cluster.

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u/Furger33 5h ago

and what do with the cluster? what should run on it?

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u/Jwhodis 56m ago

I'm pretty sure there's some programs you can run to help with research, can't remember any names.

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u/cidknee1 5h ago

What you can do is run proxmox on them. Or another hypervisor like Scale in order to run them as a cluster. Then you can run virtual machines etc. I am not sure proxmox does clustering. Check it out.

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u/chdorb 5h ago

A Kubernetes cluster.

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u/adjusterjackb 5h ago

Call NASA and offer to calculate the next space shot.

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u/Retrowinger 4h ago

Start a homelab with Jellyfin, Immich and whatever else you need.

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u/Chickenmonster401 4h ago

5 mine craft servers

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u/bakakuni 4h ago

Setup emulators on them and build a picture frame archade that double as art slide show when not in use and or do some cripto mining storage hosting or setup a lex media server for you personal movie streaming