I probably should have tried going lower than 50% off, but I got this one for under $800 shipped Intel VCA1283LVV Visual Compute Accelerator NEW BULK PACKAGING | eBay
We had a thread on it some time ago https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/intel-vca-card.8498/
Basically, it is 3x Intel Xeon E3-1283L V4 CPUs (they have GPUs) plus I believe 16GB of RAM all on a PCIe card.
I have heard you can install CentOS on each Xeon E3 node. It then uses the host networking interface through the PCIe bus and host drivers.
My idea is to see if I can get it set up as a x86 Kubernetes cluster on a PCIe card. Worst case, I tear it apart for STH YouTube.
235W and passive cooling so you basically need a system capable of cooling GPUs to get these to work. They were discontinued in Q3 2018 I believe so this is certainly a risky purchase. The original market was for video transcoding on the iGPUs for broadcasting.
We had a thread on it some time ago https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/intel-vca-card.8498/
Basically, it is 3x Intel Xeon E3-1283L V4 CPUs (they have GPUs) plus I believe 16GB of RAM all on a PCIe card.
I have heard you can install CentOS on each Xeon E3 node. It then uses the host networking interface through the PCIe bus and host drivers.
My idea is to see if I can get it set up as a x86 Kubernetes cluster on a PCIe card. Worst case, I tear it apart for STH YouTube.
235W and passive cooling so you basically need a system capable of cooling GPUs to get these to work. They were discontinued in Q3 2018 I believe so this is certainly a risky purchase. The original market was for video transcoding on the iGPUs for broadcasting.