Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

From	David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software
Date	2021-01-23 07:00 +0100
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On 2021-01-22 19:31, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
> David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:
> 
>> On 2021-01-21 21:06, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
>>> I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI
>>> Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them
>>> a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining
>>> technologies.
>>
>> Several manufacturers produced graphics cards with that name.  What is
>> the make and model?  Support URL?
>>
>> What is the model of the PSU?  Support URL?
> 
> The ones that I have are manufactured by MSI. Radian RX 580 Gaming X
> 8G. Exactly this one,
> 
> https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/Radeon-RX-580-GAMING-X-8G/Specification

Okay.  eBay says those are trending at $300.  They benchmark at about 
1/3 of the current #1 card:

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php


>> I would start by putting one GPU in a PC and figuring out the software
>> (libraries, tools) and workflow required to do HPC/ GPU computing
>> using Debian.  Please let us know what you discover.
> 
> Definitely. I’ll share as I proceed. I like this approach of putting
> just one card first and figuring out things.

When you do, you can look at AMD Epyc and GPU servers:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/epyc-server

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gigabyte-G291-Z20-CTO-AMD-Epyc-GPU-Server-Holds-8-GPUs/264933076956?hash=item3daf3defdc:g:BTUAAOSwEUBfqrG2


The next problems will be powering and cooling it...  :->


David

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Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-01-22 06:30 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2021-01-22 08:50 +0100
    Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-01-22 19:20 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 10:00 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-01-22 12:50 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-22 12:50 +0100
    Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 16:10 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-22 23:50 +0100
    Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-01-23 04:50 +0100
      Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-23 07:00 +0100

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