Volunteer distributed computing is important
Cryptocurrencies have enjoyed much the focus over the last couple years – and especially over the last 12 months – with regard to distributed comput...
Category: Colony West
Migrating a Plex Media Server to another system
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...
Proxmox VE vs VMware vSphere
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...
OpenVPN on Docker
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...
Rack 2U GPU compute node
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...
Running Folding@Home headless on Fedora Server
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...
Revisiting the colony
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...
Revisiting bottlenecking, or why most don’t use the term correctly
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...
Follow-up on Colony West
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...
Rack water cooling, cont.
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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