Now I see that there are two different items. The server seems a good price. I think the redundant power supply has about that value on its own.Sorry if I did not make that clear, the motherboard left is unrelated to dual CPU Xeon E5-2680v4 server on right (see links in my previous posting). The Xeon server has 16 RAM slots, allowing for up to 512GB RDIMM or 1024GB LRDIMM.Curiously, the Xeon E5-2680v4 has four memory channels while that Huawei motherboard has six slots. Fido likes how it says "SuperComputer" in big letters on the heat spreader.
Thread with all information I learned on Huawei RH 2288 server bringup here:
https://www.mersenneforum.org/node/1067119
That server has only 2 half height PCIE x16 and two full size x16 PCIE slots.
One of the department systems in the fishbowl is a similar vintage dual-socket GPU server. It's made to hold 4 GPUs but for the last year has only one. It mostly functions as a file server these days.
While it would be amazing if someone could get ROCm working on a Pi 5, the CUDA environment is definitely easier to work with. Since Nvidia already has ARM-based embedded platforms with built-in GPUs, I think they could create a Pi environment without much trouble. Since CUDA is proprietary, this is not a project for volunteers but would take productive cooperation between companies.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:10 am