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