I have a large amount of surplused parts (notably 2x Xeon Gold 6136 CPUs, 24x64gb DDR4 LRDIMMs) that I'm trying to save money by reusing. The memory is obviously far more of a potential cost savings than the CPUs. I'm trying to figure out if there is a plausible path to building a workstation / server class system that can mount 16x of those DIMMs (ie 1tb of RAM), with space for 6+ 3.5" HDDs for training data and personal files, and at least 2 16x PCIe slots that could hold two Blackwell 6000 Max-Q's. 8 channel, 16 DDR4 DIMM, single socket motherboards / chassis combos seem to be thin on the ground.
Has anyone built anything like this?
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