Thummper

Hello, 1. Budget & Location $10-30k, US 2. Aim AI primarily, multiple virtual gaming (2-5 stations, mainly MMORPG, possibly other various games but not as important), and crypto mining to subsidize 3. Monitors I have 4, possibly more in the future for other virtual stations 4. Peripherals Prefer linux, I like Ubuntu but open to Ubuntu variants. Will buy additional monitors/peripherals as needed. Looking at rack mount solutions preferably, but needs to be a shallow rack (~34" external, 24-27" internal depth) 5. Why are you upgrading? I am building a new house and looking to setup everything "right" from the start (plan for a 30 year home). I'm tired of cobbling together various desktops for the family all over the place, I want to put together a truly righteous setup all at once. I'm building a new house and planning for my dream setup in it. I'll have a home office with a tech closet w/ it's own hvac supply, exhaust fan to the attic, and 20a dedicated circuit (did some quick math, looks like I may need ~40a for the rig. Will have to talk to the electrician about getting more supply there). I'm thinking of going with a rack instead of all these desktops I have under my desk now (media server, work, personal), will run KVM under the floor and up to my desk. Also considering KVM over IP so that virtualized gaming stations can be run in the game room, not crowding everyone into my office, I really hate the latency of remote computing. I am a data scientist, lots of deep learning work, who also raids with my wife and (when they are old enough) 3 kids. It occurred to me that AI, gaming, and crypto all overlap (although nvidia is best for ai, amd for crypto, but close), and that I might be able to at least subsidize an insane AI rig with crypto, and then be able to run several virtual windows gaming rigs off of that, but I need to be careful how I plan or Ill have an expensive non-solution. I'm looking to build something similar to one of the Lambda Labs blades, 8x 2080ti's, (NVidia is a must for AI, and 2080ti is the performance/$$ break there). Fully expect a 10-30k build here, but I'm not up to date on all of the low level hardware quirks, esp in setting up the virtual windows gaming like in several LTT videos. Also looking for quite, as I spend most of my days in the office and dont want to go crazy. I'm above average comfortable with linux, but not at LTT level, happy to learn and tinker though. In general, AI is the focus, games is the bonus, and crypto is the subsidy I use to justify it to my wife. My biggest issues are: 1. picking MB/chip that will work with 8 cards, be future-resistant for a while, and work with virtualization / GPU passthrough 2. water cooling, I have no experience with it but think I will probably want to go that rout 3. power supplies Any thoughts would be much appreciated.