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Volunteer distributed computing is important

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Cryptocurrencies have enjoyed much the focus over the last couple years – and especially over the last 12 months – with regard to distributed comput...

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Migrating a Plex Media Server to another system

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Note: This is a how-to for migrating a Plex Media Server from one Linux system to another Linux system. This is not about changing platforms. Recently I migrate...

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Proxmox VE vs VMware vSphere

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

If you’re seeking to get involved in anything computer-related with the intent of making it a career, two concepts with which you really need to be famili...

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OpenVPN on Docker

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

A self-hosted VPN is a simple and secure way to access your home or small business network. For small businesses, this is a great way to set up a VPN connection...

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Rack 2U GPU compute node

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

For the last couple years, I’ve more or less tried to use older hardware to donate compute time to various research projects. To varying degrees of succes...

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Running Folding@Home headless on Fedora Server

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Recently I set up a virtual machine on my VM server to run Folding@Home as a CPU-only worker. I’ll walk through the exact steps I took to set up the VM, a...

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Revisiting the colony

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Stability for some reason had been an ongoing concern with this setup. What was confusing is that stability wasn’t a concern before I built the rack and g...

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Revisiting bottlenecking, or why most don’t use the term correctly

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Previously I wrote a long rant-ish article about the term bottlenecks, particularly with regard to AMD vs Intel. In that article I tried to demonstrate, among o...

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Follow-up on Colony West

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So the system has been up and running for about a week now, so it’s time for a follow-up on how the system is performing. Temperatures First I couldn̵...

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Rack water cooling, cont.

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

EK got back to me pretty quickly on my inquiry. The screws in question that I’d need are M3x10 DIN 7991. They even offered to mail me a set if I couldn...

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