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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 01:05:39 JST minute

   MNT Rack Reform back panel with a GPU installed. the rectangular cutout will get another ethernet port for the BMC. the panel will later be made from metal.

   • snow (snowsplitter@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 01:35:32 JST snow

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     @mntmn what type of GPU are you running with it? How are you planning to cool it?

   • florian (flowb@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:04:57 JST florian

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     @mntmn I love your work and what you do. This video nerd is a little confused about the interface options on the GPU.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:04:57 JST minute

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     • florian

     @flowb this is just an old nvidia GPU that i still had in stock which still has VGA and DVI.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:05:51 JST minute

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     • Sylvhem

     @Sylvhem can be a server, can be a desktop or appliance

   • Sylvhem (sylvhem@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:05:52 JST Sylvhem

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     @mntmn Wait, you are going to do servers now?

   • James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:30:27 JST James Just James

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     @mntmn Do you think it can fit something like this? Will it have PCI express x4 or x8? (four lanes or eight?)

     I've actually not ever seen a six port card IRL, but turns out they exist, and that would be awesome for this project.

     2.5G four port cards exist too which would be excellent. Bonus if there are two onboard ports as stock unrelated to PCI.

     https://www.silicom-usa.com/pr/server-adapters/networking-adapters/gigabit-ethernet-networking-server-adapters/pe2g6i35-server-adapter/

   • dermeerkamp (dermeerkamp@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:47:37 JST dermeerkamp

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     @mntmn pikvm as BMC or will you do something new?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:47:37 JST minute

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     • dermeerkamp

     @dermeerkamp custom lightweight service running on a olimex stm32mp1

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:48:21 JST minute

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     • James Just James

     @purpleidea this would totally fit, but unfortunately there is only 1x lane at the moment.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 03:28:57 JST minute

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     • dermeerkamp

     @dermeerkamp currently just a prototype https://mastodon.social/@mntmn/110458880935707631

   • dermeerkamp (dermeerkamp@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 03:28:58 JST dermeerkamp

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     @mntmn uh looking forward to see your solution!

   • James Just James (purpleidea@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 05:29:45 JST James Just James

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     @mntmn Oh well! Would be pretty awesome if the lane count increased! This is starting to fell reminiscent of a mix between two machines I've bought:

     Supermicro
     "SuperServer 5018D-FN8T" and
     "SuperChassis 510T-203B".

     Notable features: the 2x2.5" hot swappable SSD's, the 8x PCI, the abundance of ethernet ports, and slim depth 1U chassis.

     Having 2-3 of those features in a new 1U rack is a major win. Keep up the great work!

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 05:34:30 JST minute

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     • James Just James

     @purpleidea thank you, quite interesting!

   • Steinar Bang (steinarb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 05:46:12 JST Steinar Bang

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     • Sylvhem

     @mntmn @Sylvhem On a hosrelated note I googled up companies doing rPi based hosting a while back.

     https://raspberry-hosting.com/en
     https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi
     https://www.ikoula.com/en/dedicated-server/raspberry-pi-4-micro-server
     https://best-hosting.cz/en/raspberry-hosting

     The achilles heel of rPi hosting is mass storage. All of the above offer an SD card on the rPi itself and further storage on NFS.

     And both the SD card and NFS are kind of useless if you're e.g. is going to run a PostgreSQL database on it.