Hi all,
I am interested in building a workstation or server that can tackle the above tasks and have a few GPUs knocking about. I have read numerous guides online, but most tend to advocate GTX/RTX and desktop hardware etc. I am in a relatively uncommon situation as I am an IT broker (primarily enterprise) and manage my own stock so I have random smatterings of components everywhere. If there is anyone out here that has experience in configuring enterprise equipment for the above tasks I would love to pick your brain!
Proposed build:
Chassis:
- Dell PowerEdge R630/R620/R610/T330/T620/T320
or
- HP Z420/Precision T7910/T5810/T5800
- CPU (2x E5-2690 V1 or 2x E5-2695 V3) is this overkill? The GPU will be handling the crunching? I can always sub out for a more modest CPU such 1x E5-2620 V1/V3 etc.
- RAM (16GB DDR3 12800R or 16GB DDR4 2133MT/s - depending on the system) 32GB is too expensive to squirrel away for this hobby so I would prefer to use 16GB & I have enough to fully populate any of the above machines. Should I max out the RAM or will I see diminishing returns after a rough figure?
- HDD (Mechanical 15Ks or SAS/SATA SSDs?) Should I be running an all flash system? or have a OS SSD and mechanical drives for data? Or this is not that important?
- OS (Ubuntu or Windows?)
- GPU: This is the part I need the most help with.
As far as I understand, Nvidia GPU hardware is extremely similar underneath but features are typically disabled/enabled depending on the card (ECC etc) I have Quadros (K4200/M4000/Q4000), Teslas (K20/K40/K80) and a few lower end GTX cards (770GTX) in stock that I can use - but which one should I be using?! I know the Quadro are more suited for CAD, Tesla for scientific computation and GTX for gaming. It might sound like I have answered my own question but there are drivers, ECC, memory bandwidths & cooling, power supplies and other things to take into consideration.
Any advice would be appreciated
Thanks all in advance!
I am interested in building a workstation or server that can tackle the above tasks and have a few GPUs knocking about. I have read numerous guides online, but most tend to advocate GTX/RTX and desktop hardware etc. I am in a relatively uncommon situation as I am an IT broker (primarily enterprise) and manage my own stock so I have random smatterings of components everywhere. If there is anyone out here that has experience in configuring enterprise equipment for the above tasks I would love to pick your brain!
Proposed build:
Chassis:
- Dell PowerEdge R630/R620/R610/T330/T620/T320
or
- HP Z420/Precision T7910/T5810/T5800
- CPU (2x E5-2690 V1 or 2x E5-2695 V3) is this overkill? The GPU will be handling the crunching? I can always sub out for a more modest CPU such 1x E5-2620 V1/V3 etc.
- RAM (16GB DDR3 12800R or 16GB DDR4 2133MT/s - depending on the system) 32GB is too expensive to squirrel away for this hobby so I would prefer to use 16GB & I have enough to fully populate any of the above machines. Should I max out the RAM or will I see diminishing returns after a rough figure?
- HDD (Mechanical 15Ks or SAS/SATA SSDs?) Should I be running an all flash system? or have a OS SSD and mechanical drives for data? Or this is not that important?
- OS (Ubuntu or Windows?)
- GPU: This is the part I need the most help with.
As far as I understand, Nvidia GPU hardware is extremely similar underneath but features are typically disabled/enabled depending on the card (ECC etc) I have Quadros (K4200/M4000/Q4000), Teslas (K20/K40/K80) and a few lower end GTX cards (770GTX) in stock that I can use - but which one should I be using?! I know the Quadro are more suited for CAD, Tesla for scientific computation and GTX for gaming. It might sound like I have answered my own question but there are drivers, ECC, memory bandwidths & cooling, power supplies and other things to take into consideration.
Any advice would be appreciated
Thanks all in advance!