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.
