Got gifted an old Dell PowerEdge server... no GPU and no virtualization. Want to run ComfyUI on win10 laptop... but Flux.1 Dev on server. How?

[Davros666]

I was given a cheap server recently, a Dell PowerEdge, and it might make a good platform for running FLUX.1 Dev using CPU power as it has 192GB RAM but it has NO GPU and no VRAM.

The server is connected to my home router.

I already have a laptop with NVidia Cuda cores but insufficient memory powerful enough to run FLUX AI on its own however it should be capable of running ComfyUI.

So I want to run the ComfyUI on the Win10 laptop but use the raw grunt of the server running Ubuntu 24.04 to do the heavy lifting on Flux.1 Dev using CPU alone but later utilize any math-accelerators I have access to.

What I'd like to know is;

1. is this possible and if so how do I do this?

2. should I install Ubuntu Desktop (access to CivitAI) or Ubuntu Server (lower resource wastage on silly gfx nonsense) to do this?

The server has no virtualization/GPU capabilities but I do have access to discarded TPUs and math-accelerators.

Surely it is a simple network problem?

• all Data and AI processing on server
• GUI running on win10 laptop
• via home network

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.