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Today they came to collect the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Big thank you to the ICTS staff who had to sit in the DC wiping the RAID configuration of these blades and associated data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2014 we decommissioned the &#8220;HP BL20p gen3\/gen4&#8221; series of blades we used for our first HPC cluster. The hardware is still in good condition and still has a good few years of computing it could deliver. We decided to donate the decommissioned hardware to UWC&#8217;s High Performance Computing Club. 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