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My home server has an i7 4790K, 32GB DDR3 and... a GTX 1080 Gamer Edition that's doing... well, bugger all. Why is the graphics card in there you might ask? Wel
by mrmondo 10y ago
My home server has an i7 4790K, 32GB DDR3 and... a GTX 1080 Gamer Edition that's doing... well, bugger all. Why is the graphics card in there you might ask? Well, it was sitting on my desk collecting dust as I wait patiently for a Pascal driver for eGPUs on macOS but Nvidia had delayed these for long enough that I thought I'd chuck it in my home server, it is being used by ffmpeg for x265/HVEC transcoding with Plex media server but I'm really not even touching it's capabilities - not even close when transcoding a 120GB+ 4K 120FPS video and streaming it wirelessly to my TV that's running a Plex client. The server is running CentOS 7 and has 10x 8TB SATA drives in BTRFS RAID 10 for storage, two Intel NVMe 750 series 1.2 TB SSDs for the OS as well as a couple of 2TB Crucial MX300 SATA SSDs that aren't currently in use for much.
So, I have been sitting here wondering how I can make better use of it while it's practically parked in my server while I wait for some Pascal drivers to drop. I'm not so interested in robots / live video processing but it'd be neat if I could leverage its power for something fun or to assist the servers compute performance in some other ways that might be useful or interesting. I was running KVM with PCIe pass through passing the GPU to a guest VM running Steam as a steam streaming box but I got sick of having an OS on the network that I had to worry about Virus's, Malware and annoyingly slow and unreliable updates being installed when you least want it to happen and I got lazy and went back to playing PlayStation when I needed some time out from constructive work / research.
Open to ideas to any software I could tinker with if anyone has any interesting suggestions?
- kharms 10y agoNot something for you to work on, but something you can do in the mean time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computin...
- j_s 10y agoCan you ballpark today's price tag for such a setup? There seem to be several pricing tiers floating around in this discussion and I'd appreciate the chance to see how your setup fits in without having to shop for it.
- mrmondo 10y agoWell it's all cheap kit with the exception of the disks, I guess you could just go online and have a look at what those parts cost you in your country etc...