What do you do with a 15 node decommissioned Itanium cluster?

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We are decommissioning a 15 node Itanium cluster.

We don't know what to do with it. Being geeks we want to put it (or its individual nodes) to some cool use, but since it is Itanium we are a bit unsure what that could/would be.

We are not bringing it back as production servers and we are considering giving them away, if anyone wants them.

It's not the most spiffy hardware, but being 2U rack servers they pack an ok amount of cpu and memory, they're about 3 years old perhaps.

Ideas to what runs well on them? Or something one can use them as?

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