Bendy_BSD

Logged in again and going to explore some ideas.   Wish me luck at Texas Instruments.


Beyond that, I am going to look into hooking up an external GPU (or any pci-e device) to my old laptop just as a test mule.   No PCI-E 1x, gonna shoot for x4 or x8.  Wish me luck with that too.

Status update: 4/10/2021 @7:57AM - Don't know what to say other than what's on my mind, for now I'm thinking that it could be possible to modify a Tesla m40 to be dual m40 Quadros by modifying the BIOS.
A few factors taken into consideration to support my hypothesis are that both the NVIDIA GPU cards are both the GM20X architecture and the purpose of this is to ... well, use one of the GPUs for a hackintosh vm and the other for my primary gamestreaming vm (streaming games to a thin client) for a cheap price.  I mean, 12GB per GPU is pretty nuts right?

Unless if you can use the Quadro drivers without modding the m40 tesla then I'd love to hear that.

Feb. 7th, 2021 Chapter 10 - 28 of my COMPTIA A+ Studying

As the statement above gives, I'm almost there.    I'm just so excited to take the test so that I don't have to work at my current employer any longer.  Though, I would like to point out that while my current employer isn't as bad as my first or second, my current one is ... a mixed bag.

So far, I'm enjoying it though the lack of a heads up in terms of scheduling and also the cheapo welds on the platforms that we walk on can be better.   It's cheap, and they really NEED to revise their conveyor belt system and also enforce stricter security polices because I am confident that some rando pen tester wouldn't be hard pressed to get by the metal detector with a raspberry pi or any other equipment.   And furthermore they NEED to lock out their windows based machines, especially if it's around newer employees.   Seriously, I brought this up with my supervisor before of the risks of what one can do to wreak havoc on their infrastructure and their response, and I quote, was "It's for the maintenance associates, it's fine."     I'm just dumbfounded.... baffled even.    Honeslty, the day that they get hacked is the day where that one supervisor I told to do something about it will be the day I laugh my arse off.    Seriously guys, DO SOMETHING.

That rando tangent aside, wish me luck on my exam! 

Build Update rev 1.4:  Project Omega --> Project 'Cerb0S'
December 26th, 2020 @ 11:14PM (Date of which this status had established it's creation; creation date.   relative to my timezone.)

So, I have been going through a lot of drama, heartbreak and other issues (financially buoyant, but just going with the flow of life and where it's taking me) but, among the chaos of late '19 to the end of 2020, I will reflect of what I'm thankful for as of this day:
(personal update, then build update.  My bad!)

I'm thankful for my loving father and stepmother, my girlfriend, my friends who stayed by my side -- even when stuff hit the fan --, I'm thankful for my employer hiring me because I would be up Schitt's Creek without a paddle, I'm thankful for my mobile carrier providing me access to internet at a very reasonable price, I'm thankful for the food I eat, I'm thankful for having a car that still runs and is in relatively good shape (though TLC is DEFINITELY needed, and as soon as I get a better job I will make that my primary priority and health related stuff my secondary and my living situation being my final item to check off the list and address the lesser needs later on,)  I'm thankful that I'm alive and that I'm able to learn, to read, write, speak, breathe, see, hear, feel, experience (the good parts for good reason, the bad parts that happen to me to take in as wisdom of what to avoid, VERY important), and that I get to live life on earth before my eventual expiration.   And my trusty 16 core, 32 thread rig/server.. good 'ol C602 (chipset; xeon family tree).


With that said, I will now get into my build update:

So far I am just chilling with my current system (reference code to CTRL+F on the post or to find by keyword: "Cerb0S specs") right now and I believe that my investment on 12 core, 24 thread cpus (granted, it's an lga 2011 socket, so.. old basically) would be worth it for one reason: more cores, more threads.   I'll list the new cpus later on down the line but for now, the final form of this system will go from a phanteks case to a dune case with the dice Y front panel, hackintosh vm, and a monitor with gsync.    the (fanboy-ish) aspect of this build is that it will have the apple-esque workstation with the addition of a pc case right beside it, which will be a razer (or alternatively lenevo or hp or heck, alienware desktop tower) case that will act as a backplane/external enclosure for additional pci-e devices -- like gpus in this case.. no pun intended -- and there are two reasons to this, the first reason is that it is so that I can still make use of all the pcie lanes and pcie slots.  For example, there are gpus that I want to use for the fun of it, but need for the more practical aspects of why I designed the system in the first place.  Like, stream games to a thin client for fun, but then take advantage of the hardware before my very presence to do things like edit, render, and upload to youtube* (more on that asterisk later on,) and of which are physically taking up space where I could add more useful I/O expansion cards.    Like, a USB card for each vm to allow hotplugging.

I will divide the list of devices (on paper) respectively.  So for instance, Case A is the Dune Case and Case B is the External Enclosure.

Case A:  
Slot 1 (x4) 8 port, quad controller USB 3.0 expansion card.

Slot 2 (x16) Onestop systems external backplane adapter (x16 variant so that I can get as much bandwidth in as much as I can)
Slot 3 (x16 w/ Bifurcation disabled; x16 mode) dual port SFP+ 10Gb NIC

Slot 4 (x16) Fenvi macos compatible wifi adapter

Slot 5 (x16) AMD RX580 or Vega 56/64 GPU

Slot 6 (PCI 32-bit) N/A

Case B:

Slot 0 (x16 pin to pin, target card from onestop systems)

Slot 1 (x16) RTX 2080

Slot 2 (x16) NVIDIA Grid quad/dual gpu

Slot 3 (x16) Nvme (quad) array, quad m.2 drives

Slot 4 (x16) PCoIP enabled, AMD FirePro R5000 2GB card

Slot 5 (x16) LSI SAS card

Now, for case B, it's assuming that I will get the onestop systems 5 slot PCI-E daughter board backplane.  If I wanted to go for a more direct and janky solution, I could print my own circuit board (though a third party; outsourcing the design) and create my own "daughter board".    utilizing the bifurcation function to split up the slots into four x4 gen3 slots, and with the printed card and daughter board, I would allocate the lower priority and/or any devices that use x4 or less for those bifurcated slots.  And any higher bandwidth devices (preferably the newer gpus) will be reserved for the slots locally on the motherboard.

The reason why I would want (and technically need) the dice y case is for the acoustic aspect, being to do gaming and also a bit of sound design.  My primary goal is to have a functional system that I'm putting to good use.  Proper utilization; no underutilization.

* = About YouTube, in my opinion, it's where everyone's at, but I'd prefer to post two versions of each video I upload, in case if the YouTube-friendly vid gets taken down because of a troll or because of YouTube's infinite wisdom because of one complaint that misses the entire point of what purpose my YouTube channel serves, I'd still have the ability to refer those to my own personal video directory where they can view it themselves via ftp directory (this will take up some space, if that's the case, just stream it over vlc) and they can download it to watch for later.   #dmcathisyt         Anarchistic personality aside, that's my view and personal bias.

Then again, from a cost effectiveness standpoint and functionality standpoint, what would cheaper? 
 

Build another node? (16c,32t + 24c,48t = 40c,80t total), link the two with quad port sfp+ ports (rdma enabled on each system)
PCI-E backplane from onestop systems?

Janky diy backplane?

Just curious. : )  

With that said, I hope you all have a wonderful day and instead of saying "Happy New Year" let's say in unison "Jumanji" Because we need to get the hell out of this game called COVID-19.  (TikTok reference, not my own quote).

Tried playing Rainbow Six Siege in my windows 10 vm, and BattleEye soft bans me (kicks me) out of every game after 30 seconds of being in ANY match except lone wolf.

Fuck you BattleEye, like banning/soft banning vm users is going to solve the problem. >: l

in other news, for proxmox ve you can use nested virtualization for containers AND regular vms!

Passed through an AMD FirePro R5000 gpu to my windows 10 pro vm and I also made a vm inside of the vm.  
 

vm inception!  L :