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.
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
