Tag: Ubuntu
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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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Go Big or Go Home, Part 1: My New AI Cluster
Before We Start I built a new local AI server. It is fully operational, and I have the benchmark data—and the results from running some seriously large open-source models—to prove it. Local AI rigs exploded in popularity in 2026 alongside the growing demand for models that people can run on their own hardware. Unfortunately, the…