THIS Replaced Every PC in my House!

[derr12]

2 hours ago, emosun said:

becuase 1u is awful 

Not if you value rack space over drive capacity. Personally im loving the supermicro 2u chassis i put in service this year tho. 

[emosun]

4 minutes ago, derr12 said:

Not if you value rack space over drive capacity.

i dont

[derr12]

13 minutes ago, emosun said:

i dont

pretty sure supermicro makes a dual socket 2u 24 bay unit as well. 

what are your disk capacity needs?

[Devtroy3r]

I like these kind of videos but from my point of view i would like to see Anthony or Jake to explain the interesting technical details, because most of the time it is to untechnical. I like the LTT videos very much but most of the time i feel the drive to buy these cool tech that i never can effort but sometimes there these really cool videos that have a real solution for a problem that i have by my self. It would be even better if there is just more information about OS linked Hardware and the Process that lead to this specific Solution.

[Devtroy3r]

On 12/19/2019 at 8:46 PM, James said:

Can Linus run ALL of the work and gaming stations in his ENTIRE HOUSE off of just one system?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvzeZCZluJ0

What OS did he just used?

[Kilrah]

Unraid as hypervisor running Windows VMs.

[catapultam_habeo]

Maybe I missed in the video, but was it ever explained how display output was extended to other rooms? It looks like they ran two fiber runs per terminal, so I'm guessing some sort of DP-over-Fiber adapter, but it wasn't highlighted at all. Is this a product that is already known about, and so wasn't worth mentioning for some reason, or something that is still secret?

[Kilrah]

Yep, just an optical DP cable. Was mentioned multiple times, including when they installed it backwards...

It's nothing really special unlike the USB/ethernet box, optical HDMI/DP cables are pretty common although expensive.

[catapultam_habeo]

59 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Yep, just an optical DP cable. Was mentioned multiple times, including when they installed it backwards...

It's nothing really special unlike the USB/ethernet box, optical HDMI/DP cables are pretty common although expensive.

Sweet! I didn't know that these existed.

[chrisjenx]

So unless I'm missing something, why did they use the Icron extenders? (Apart from the runs being more than 100ft obvious answer) https://www.corning.com/optical-cables-by-corning/worldwide/en/products/usb-optical-cables.html

 

Looks like Corning does a USB3.0 product 100' long, now I know if you are doing some crazy long run, 100' probably isn't enough, but for anyone else trying this, going down a floor, or putting a computer in the room over - seems like this would be a much more sensible affordable solution? As long as the latency isn't terrible?

[Frequency295]

So circling way back to the beginning, are they just using VNC or RDP to connect to the virtualized sessions or something else like moonlight?

 

Thanks

[Kilrah]

Watch the video, it's direct connection. Machines are virtualized but interfacing through real hardware.

[Kenyartaylor]

I would love to get this working. Anyone ever figure out what was wrong on the VR end and how to fix it?

[HDRony]

If we could use thunderbolt without any issue, it could be a much cheaper way to obtain the same result, that’s right?

 

anyway, what is the OS “host” of the VM? Any kind of Windows server? And what software? Hyper-V, VMware, vbox?

[Kilrah]

29 minutes ago, HDRony said:

If we could use thunderbolt without any issue, it could be a much cheaper way to obtain the same result, that’s right?

Copper thunderbolt cables are limited to 3m length only... so you have to go with optical and that's been a bit flaky...

[Psycs]

Any chance of an update on this?

 

How's it working out after 6+ months?

 

What kind of server case did this go into?

[Kilrah]

AFAIK it was a one-off experiment for the video, was torn down right afterwards since it's kinda ridiculous and they probably had to return the expensive showcased fiber usb boxes (was mentioned on a WAN show a week or 3 after the video came out).

 

The server case is custom designed/built.

[NightKnightIV]

On 12/30/2019 at 8:32 PM, Kilrah said:

Yep, just an optical DP cable. Was mentioned multiple times, including when they installed it backwards...

It's nothing really special unlike the USB/ethernet box, optical HDMI/DP cables are pretty common although expensive.

Would you need a DisplayPort repeater in order to get this to work, or is that not needed as long as you use optical cables? I want to do a more simple set up with my computer up stairs and my VR gaming set up downstairs, but I can only find a repeater that supports distances up to 32 feet. I would also need to bridge the two Display-cables with something.

[Kilrah]

You don't need a repeater if you use an optical cable.

[Vaggeto]

On 6/28/2020 at 1:18 AM, Kilrah said:

AFAIK it was a one-off experiment for the video, was torn down right afterwards since it's kinda ridiculous and they probably had to return the expensive showcased fiber usb boxes (was mentioned on a WAN show a week or 3 after the video came out).

 

The server case is custom designed/built.

Any idea what WAN show this was? I looked through the ones near the time of this video but couldn't find any mention of it.

 

[Kilrah]

No, but it was probably a few months later and just mentioned in a pinch (not a topic in itself), I believe in response to a comment during the live where someone was asking advice about it and Linus' answer was basically "don't do it, was for fun but isn't practical"