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

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:36:11AM +0530, 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.
> 

There's a large thread going on about firmware elsewhere in Debian and on LWN.net :(
Radeon RX580 card will almost certainly require the non-free firmware package - amdgpu from non-free. It may be that if you don't have that firmware
in place that the cards won't work properly, though they should be recognised by the motherboard.

> I want these cards to be put to use for experimenting with
> multi-threading work loads like may be Machine Learning or may be Image
> Processing of deep space data or may be run GNU Radio for experimenting
> with signals.
> 
> I don’t want any proprietary software to run on these systems. And hence
> exploring possibilities. My questions:
> 
> 1. I had a look at i7 and Ryzen 7. For multi-threading applications, it
>    appears that Ryzen is better choice because it allows more number of
>    simultaneous threads. 16 as compared to 8 on i7. Does anybody have
>    experience with these? Please share your recommendation.
> 
> 2. Are there good general purpose motherboards available for 3 graphics
>    cards? I have experience with motherboards with 12 graphics
>    cards. But those were not general purpose. They were specifically
>    designed for cryto mining purpose only.
> 
> 3. I’ll also put these machine to serve local copy of all my data. I’ll
>    synchronize it with some cloud space. I need recommendations for
>    reliable hard disks. A combination of SSD/HDD to balance between
>    cost, performance and reliability will probably be best. But I really
>    don’t know much about the hardware.
> 
> I already have good modular corsair 1200w power-supply. So I’ll put that
> to use.
> 
> I need your help to setup a system completely free of proprietary
> software. Please do reply.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pankaj Jangid
> 
> GnuPG Fingerprint: 0B62 7424 3B26 A911 052A DDE6 7C95 6E6F F858 7689
> 
All the best, as ever,

Andy C.

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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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