Tag: GPU cluster
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Go Big or Go Home, Part 2: Commissioning the new GPU cluster
Before We Try to Break It Part 1 covered why I rebuilt my local AI system around WRX90, a Threadripper PRO 9955WX, 128 GB of eight-channel ECC RDIMM, two RTX 3090 Founders Edition cards, Ubuntu, air cooling, and hardware-level remote management. When almost $11,000 in tracked hardware acquisition value sits inside one case, “it boots”…
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48 GB of VRAM and a Dream – Part 2: The AI Bubble in My Parts List
I’m in the middle of building my second GPU cluster, and I’m losing hair (literally) staring at current RAM, SSD and GPU prices. They are not what they were 18 months ago. In Part 1 of this series I walked through the V1 build — a dual RTX 3090, 48 GB VRAM rig that came…