Hiya,
I´m considering building a new box with the intention of being able to host one or two VM's that'll run games over parsec, with GPU-resources shared/assigned per VM. I'll probably want to run a few other VM's alongside these, but nothing that requires GPU. The box will be hosted close by, so latency wouldn't be much of an issue.
Last time i built myself a box it was a dual E5-2650v1, so my knowledge of what's best for this kind of build is pretty limited.
What kind of a CPU/GPU would you guys recommend? And what would be the most "cost-effective" solution to this?
I'm thinking something along the lines of a Nvidia 1070 with NVME/SSD-based storage for lower latency. I'm not sure how well AMD CPU's will play with passthrough these days, so maybe an Intel-based CPU is for the better? Is there any specific hypervisor that would be a good fit for this? I've noticed that many GPU-cloud solutions are using Xen, is it superior to something like ESXi?
The reason for not simply building a plain gaming-rig is that the kids who are intended to play have special needs, and can sometimes act out and slam/hit/break stuff - hence the solution to use a simple thin-client as a frontend.
I'd ideally like to keep it under $1100 / €985 for the final build.
Any help, pointers or "lolwut"-input is appreciated.
I´m considering building a new box with the intention of being able to host one or two VM's that'll run games over parsec, with GPU-resources shared/assigned per VM. I'll probably want to run a few other VM's alongside these, but nothing that requires GPU. The box will be hosted close by, so latency wouldn't be much of an issue.
Last time i built myself a box it was a dual E5-2650v1, so my knowledge of what's best for this kind of build is pretty limited.
What kind of a CPU/GPU would you guys recommend? And what would be the most "cost-effective" solution to this?
I'm thinking something along the lines of a Nvidia 1070 with NVME/SSD-based storage for lower latency. I'm not sure how well AMD CPU's will play with passthrough these days, so maybe an Intel-based CPU is for the better? Is there any specific hypervisor that would be a good fit for this? I've noticed that many GPU-cloud solutions are using Xen, is it superior to something like ESXi?
The reason for not simply building a plain gaming-rig is that the kids who are intended to play have special needs, and can sometimes act out and slam/hit/break stuff - hence the solution to use a simple thin-client as a frontend.
I'd ideally like to keep it under $1100 / €985 for the final build.
Any help, pointers or "lolwut"-input is appreciated.