# What would you do with Ampere Altra Dev Kit?

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**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [March 26, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-ampere-altra-dev-kit/237 "2023-03-26T18:21:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![JoeSpeed](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/joespeed/32/16_2.png) [@JoeSpeed](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/JoeSpeed)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-ampere-altra-dev-kit/237/1 "2023-03-26T18:21:35Z")

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What would you do with an Ampere Altra Dev Kit?

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**Author:** ![dgilmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@dgilmore](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/dgilmore)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-ampere-altra-dev-kit/237/2 "2023-03-27T18:51:57Z")

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Something fun, OpenShift, virt host, Desktop.

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**Author:** ![hrw](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/hrw/32/31_2.png) [@hrw](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/hrw)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-ampere-altra-dev-kit/237/3 "2023-03-27T22:31:29Z")

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I would complain that I got expensive motherboard without any memory or cpu.

And then bolted it to the wall.

(sarcasm emoji)

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**Author:** ![poddingue](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/poddingue/32/22_2.png) [@poddingue](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/poddingue)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 7:44am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-ampere-altra-dev-kit/237/4 "2023-03-28T07:44:30Z")

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As stated on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Poddingue/status/1640069038331121665), I would make it my ultimate aarch64 Jenkins smoke test machine. 🤗

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**Author:** ![JoeSpeed](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/joespeed/32/16_2.png) [@JoeSpeed](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/JoeSpeed)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-ampere-altra-dev-kit/237/5 "2023-04-01T15:19:24Z")

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🤣 of course you would. Otherwise nobody would believe this is Marcin.😉

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**Author:** ![pzc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/pzc/32/166_2.png) [@pzc](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/pzc)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 3:36am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-ampere-altra-dev-kit/237/6 "2023-04-02T03:36:44Z")

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It’s a perfect platform for a virtualization monster. I would build out an SRE home base, VM’s for Kubernetes environment that will then host Jenkins, Tableau, Grafana. Add in some additional VM’s for running InfluxDB, and some dev/testing VM’s.

Or jump on the hype train and run an OpenSource LLM AI like Dolly or other LLaMA based AI’s.

This dev kit looks amazing. I can’t wait till I can run a desktop style system like this.

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**Author:** ![jonathan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/jonathan/32/175_2.png) [@jonathan](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/jonathan)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-ampere-altra-dev-kit/237/7 "2023-04-12T00:13:57Z")

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Build AlmaLinux and EPEL packages of course 🙂

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**Author:** ![vikingforties](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.amperecomputing.com/vikingforties/32/1192_2.png) [@vikingforties](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/vikingforties)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-ampere-altra-dev-kit/237/8 "2023-04-12T15:39:57Z")

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Windows 11 daily runner. See how much of the work laptop build it could run.