Okay, the original title was going to be ‘InfiniBand in the lab… who can afford 10/40 GbE’. I’ve looked in the past at 10GbE switches, and nearly pulled the trigger a few times. Even now the prices of the switches like the Netgear Prosafe or...
Before I start on a blog on how I implemented InfiniBand in the lab, I wanted to make a quick backstory on my lab which is located in the office. I do have a small homelab running VSAN, but this my larger lab. This is a quick summary of my recent lab adventures. The...
Preamble It’s now 2013, and it’s time to have a peak at my homelab refresh for this year. Background In the past three years, I’ve ran a very light homelab with VMware ESXi. I mainly used my workstation (Supermicro X8DTH-6F) with Dual Xeon...
Okay, this is probably not only effective for the Sager 9262 and the Quadro FX3700m, but this is the only platform that I have right now where I can identify and reproduce the problem. I hope some other Sager 9262 and/or 9800M GTX users using Linux can also validate...
The Sager 9262 arrived in the office, I will pick it up later today to give it a go and test that the hardware is in good condition and the screen does not show dead pixels. It only took XoticPC and Sager 9 days to purchase the laptop, make the wire transfer, build to...
