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Twelve Node Cloud Gaming Server – AsRock Rack 4U12G BC-250
Twelve Node Cloud Gaming Server – AsRock Rack 4U12G BC-250
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@carbogger shared an updated BIOS. Here is v5 for those looking for it – https://bit.ly/3Pv2GFx
I might give one final crack at this after updating. If there's no second video, you already know why.
ROFL – love the ending of your video.
Call Wendell… I've been waiting for a collaboration for years… Both of you have the same mindset and passion….
Randomx hashrates?😊
I wonder if you could set them up as Vmware ESXi / Horizon View cluster to run a whole mess of virtual desktops with the GPUs passed through – I'd guess it'd still run into the driver / nerf problem and end up with a kneecapped / half efficient power goblin
Is it gonna take off?
I mean, it would make one hell of a paper weight! x)
It sounds like it was taking off!
As someone who tried to use a ps4 as a full desktop with linux for about 2 years I have some SERIOUS shit to say that I hope people will read ITT but I know no one will.
JUST DON'T. Godon't. Snoyn't, AMDo not. Compatibility on the kernal level for all kinds of basic things such as the ideas people are pitching in the comment section precludes any desirability. This is the domain of sheer autists only who have more time to waste getting e waste to work than actually using it. Unless your use case is watching a video on youtube you would be much better off using any potato. it makes me almost certain sony isn't just hitting the bad chips.
Woo love watching Jeff and Colton save Ewaste from dumpsters to watch it turn into a dumpster fire! I honestly live vicariously through yall as it's everything I'd love to do 😂
What about atable diffusion, these cards should support rocm right?
Would steam os work, like on the steam deck?
This is the same with phones. The manufactures limit the support for 2 years, question is why. They are seriously trying to tell us that a released product will be useless after 2 years, that applications will not work on them? That's the biggest lie ever. I mean Google offers support for 7-8 years for their phones, yeah the phone might not last that long but the support for the OS is there.
The same for the AsRock Rack 4U12G BC-250, they released it, they should still offer support for it.
Take it to an airport near security and turn it on. 😆
nice failure
Jesus that is like a TU-144 running next to you
Fun toy. I thought they were 700 per node not 700 for a whole rack. Heck, I might have tried picking one up if I had known that.
Now that this board is seen the light of the day in an accessible way I imagine that the support will start to stabilize soon enough, also if the gpu side works like steam deck with a minimum plus dynamic allocated memory, it will serve really well for ML/DL, 96GB (up to 192GB) of GPU accessible memory to run/train your LLM (chatGPT)? Really Amazing! And all of it for just U$700??? OMG, pack me 2 dozens of it for travel… The power consumption is a little concerning, but if each node could provide 10TF/FP32 (20TF/FP16), this would be 240TF/FP16 for 2.5KW, this would be 2x performance of the RX 7900 XTX with 4-8 times more memory while cheaper than a RX 7900 XT (not XTX)… You could take the difference in price (of a theoretically equivalent performance system, like 2x 7900XTX) and buy some solar panels to compensate the downside XD
Of course, this is only IF it could really works, when you are using ML/DL/LLM you are already suffering so much when using supported hardware, investing in something just for the hope (not even promise) of a functional platform is simply insane…
So if you live in the arctic it's a great machine.
I guess this is why they are so cheap
I'm sorry, Jeff, did you say something?
Lol. I giggled in your suffering when those fans hit full tilt.
use it as emulator station… 😀
This video was a rollercoaster 😀
May I ask what are you going to do with it?
I wonder if the crippled CPU could be replaced with a complete one from a PS5
Nothing good has ever come from asking the question, "What could possibly go wrong?" >D
It's sad that such a (on paper) powerful cluster in a box can't be used for its clearly intended purpose. I'm sure some people would be able to futz with the cards to enable the graphics section as long as it's something firmware editable.
I think I would use it for F@H even though it would be terrible 😅
Must say I got really excited when you mentioned the price and then less excited later on😢. Wish this worked.
Minus the power draw could it still be useful for a vdi clister of sorts?
The noise can be mitigated by replacing the fans with bigger ones to get the same air flow. This might require a front plate replacement. I did not see in the video what was the stock mining OS that might be your best bet for making any use of the unit.
My garage is fully detached and uninsulated. And 100 years old. Just dealing with the spiders would be a pain in the ass.😅
This is one of those looks too good to be true, because it IS too good to be true things.
Depreciation is one thing, but dropping from $15K to $700 is a massive red flag.
One thing to keep in mind is that more than any time before, the people designing building and selling stuff like this are in our age group, they know we're always scouting for deals on the sly, and exactly how to thwart that. How hard they go on it is largely down to how locked down their legal department wants to be on things. Those folks are also onto us, only they're not under any pressure or financial incentive to reduce e-waste, resulting in dead ends like that power hungry banshee. Any wins you get after jumping through hoops to get stuff to work are because it's not worth it to them to make it near impossible.
Those fans are hilarious though. Send them to Linus or Jay so they can do stupid things with them.
If they'd included DX support but disabled Open CL so as to appease Sony, I could see a small shop located somewhere with cheap power using this for remote terminals. Use whatever you want to remote into one of those nodes for a full and secure desktop experience. Setup an inexpensive storage server to house their data data and you're good.
I mean why would you want someone selling the guts of your main gaming product? I totally get that, and it's 100% reasonable. You wouldn't even need to emulate. What I would like to see is that the agreement would have an expiration date where say once the PS 6 came out and it reached some sales threshold, AMD can unlock whatever was disabled and release drivers, even if it means leaving something gimped to block running PlayStation software on it. It addresses the e-waste issue. Then you could have a more reasonable chassis with bigger quieter fans and maybe half the nodes so it doesn't need it's own substation.
I don't like that ASRock or anyone else made crap like this to support mining, but I can't really fault them for making some quick and easy cash off of mining scum.
Are these nodes capable of running VMware?
Everytime I watch one of your videos, I always get the small thought that you're Cody's Lab as a well maintained/classy version