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I mentioned buying one for my Dell G15 machine I returned because it was lacking. Well, when the Dell/Alienware President's Day Sale hit, Dell had refunded my bank account so I pulled the trigger on an Alienware M15 R7 with far better specs than the G16 I had been looking at, which was already...

I remember jerrying a Cardbus USB 2.0 adapter with two ports. It fit flush, but I had to make it fit. And that was on a different machine. I used to use PCMCIA a lot and Cardbus a lot. That standard was easier to work with than ExpressCard. I never did get my ExpressCard (in USB mode)...

None pizza with left beef

I bought this drive for the Dell G15 I ordered. I'm returning that machine because I don't like the display and decided to wait for the RTX 40-series GPU machines. In the meantime, I stumbled upon a dirt-cheap Lenovo Ideapad 3i at Walmart that actually turned out to be better than my geriatric...

Why not just 3D print or Shapeways one?

Good, because I pulled the trigger like I promised. I feel weird right now. I really haven't had the kind of time/cash gap available to me to take chances on important tech issues that have an effect on people from my class/roots. I may have discovered my purpose.

Pulled the trigger. If my shiny new Dell G15 5520 had two SSD sockets, I'd have doubled up. Edit: Also bought a 2x32GB DDR5 SODIMM 4800 set. Official specs say the Dell G15 2022 5520 Intel will only take 32GB. I call bullshit and I'm willing to bet my time and money on it. It's literally one...

Is that link supposed to say "hardfocom"? Just hoping it's not a typo because damn right I'm pulling the trigger. Lol

Based on the pic of the CPU, you got one of the 50CT units with an underclocked Pentium 120MHz CPU where the discontinued 75MHz CPU should be. I recall there are ways to enable it to run at full speed, but it requires soldering those tiny wires. The 120 would also easily take an FSB boost to...

Still no Half Life 3.

DashcatPSC Dashcat2 DashcatMRC MRC for Manufacturing Resource Center.* When the going gets weird the Weird turn Pro. Dashcat is turning Pro 32 Raspberry Pi nodes per 2U rack mount case. Machine Vision processing. Ever wanted eyes on stuff that went wrong? Dashcat. It doesn't to take a...

*exhale a-la Alucard in Hellsing Ultimate:// Level Zero* I am the bird of Hermes. [Not by choice.] Oh boy-howdy do I have a story to tell, Mateys...

Update almost three years later. The problems the panel was experiencing were traced to the insulation on the wires between the Logic Board and TCON on the panel basically turning into powder. This is the same thing that happened to the RoboSapien V2 robot. I never could scare up a new cable or...

I haven't had access to this account for over 3 years. Very long story. I just happened to find my password formula book and figured it out. I still have Dashcat2, full of spiderwebs. No heatsinks, no RAM, e-waste motherboards. But 2U cases still have room for decent GPUs. I made a practical...

I should update that the 3008WFP finally died this past Summer. It's likely power supply related, but I haven't looked into it yet because I replaced it with a floor-model Samsung 43" 4K LED Smart TV. Granted, I had to adapt the DP output on my lab computer with one of those DP-HDMI adapters so...

So sad that it should come to this.

That's it for me. Maybe I can serve as a Hack-A-Day Fail. A decade. I'm off the proverbial pot. I just wanted to offer closure.

I'm alive and typing on a clicky keyboard with Cherry switches. RightTFon! This is odd. I'm approaching 40. I hope you can learn from my mistakes. Don't waste your time. And watch the skies. You'll see crazy shit. #walkatnight.

Thanks. My only wish is I had put the machine to better use.

It's been brought to my attention that the former archive for LNXI documentation is gone and I found my files in the early AM hours this morning while sorting through over 20 years and 10TB worth of data. I'm uploading it here for posterity. fryode.com/lnxi/LNXI-archive-fryode.zip

Morning bump with a price drop and photos of the 1080.

HTC Vive - $450 shipped - SOLD! I messed around in a few games for a few hours. I took it to two family Christmas parties where it saw two hours of use each time. It's basically new. I don't need VR for the work I do and selling the GPU I used to drive it makes keeping it entirely moot. --- I...

I simply must give an update to this thread. Over 7 years later with proof via the background, this 3008WFP is still plugging along so hard. I actually like it more than my U3415W for a lot of things, especially when I play games that couldn't deal with Superwide (I'm looking at you, Terraria.)...

I simply had to get a shot in the dark. The shortstack is being faked with a standard power strip and cords because I don't have enough of the right kind of power cords to plug into the back of the ICEBox yet. I sort of wish I could put LEDs in the server, but there's literally nowhere to put...

I just finished modding all 16 compute nodes and the server. The server is interesting. It has a Rev G motherboard with the v2.13 firmware. I'm not going to reflash that to v2.18 until I can get a backup of v2.13 (I have a bootable CD I used for flashing). I'm noticing a problem that might be...

I finished modding all six of the blades. I'm about to start on the rest of the 2U nodes. Those won't take near as long. It's 1:30AM right now. This is how I wired the lights. Just for fun, I opened my Infiniband switch to see what's inside. That's it. That's all that's in that huge 1U...

I have no idea what's going on here. I guess I won't be placeholding with image filenames anymore. Here are the photos renamed:

I'll try a repost. I just finished the first of six blade servers. Firmware was updated to v2.18. I had to get creative about mounting the new CMOS battery. I drilled the hard disk bracket and mounted a drive. I figured out how to get the Power and HDD LEDs working (wires were too short for...

Ten freaking rounds of updates later, no more important or optional Windows updates left. That was brutal and took all day. Fortunately, I've kept myself busy learning about the specifics of Windows 7 in this application. I still have a lot to learn and a lot to install before I can image...

Falcon Heavy... If Elon Musk can shoot a car into space out past Mars' orbit, the least I can do is finish the Dashcat machine. I have video of myself going ballistic during the launch. The Super Bowl was cool and I'm glad the Eagles won, but I was looking forward to watching Falcon. Who...

I learned about step-drill bits a week back. I thought "Where have these been all my life?" The basic side is a hole of the correct size. Advanced = de-burring the hole you drilled out.

Thank you.

Thanks. I have no idea when it will happen. I don't know if documenting the learning process of HPC (High-Performance Computing) is worthwhile for anyone. I still learn a lot from the current iteration of this cluster. Among other attributes, I can't keep it fed with two LACP shotgunned Gigabit...

The 3D rendering capability of Dashcat2 has been replaced with two GTX 1080 cards. However, this is not the end. I built the groundwork upon which a scaleable architecture can still exist, if necessary. Updated nodes will have GPUs installed. In the meantime, I'm studying MPI networking because...

So... Last week I got a QLogic Silverstorm 24-port CX4 Infiniband SDR switch for $10 while I was out Picking. And that was at the most unusual DI store on the Wasatch Front. There's a lot to be said for "How?" and I'm putting that to work in 2017. This is already disturbingly-effective like...

When I first conceived the Dashcat Supercomputer, I thought about the idea of a massive bank of system with dedicated GPUs rendering video in somewhat-realtime fashion with, say, 120 nodes kicking out a completed frame every two seconds and those frames being stitched together to form a video...

This is probably the most solid progress I've made on this machine in a long time. I have the cable glands that will allow me to hook my 8AWG welder cable to a sub-panel for the cluster. I'm figuring out breaker sizes, at the moment. My house wiring can take 50A intermittent and 40A...

Four of those nodes have more cores at a faster speed than my own. The upgrade price from 32GB to 64GB per node is dirt cheap and would give four nodes as much RAM as my whole cluster. I wish I could get a bunch of the mobo/CPU/RAM sets and put those into my cases. I'm sure it doesn't work...

This has been really difficult for reasons I've already mentioned. I started this project in 2009 around this time. The technology was already 4 years old then. Today, it's not CPU but GPU that dictates speed. The problem is these motherboards I use are PCI-X and not PCIe of any kind. PCI-X...

No I don't. CR2032 cells pack 225mAh and last three years minimum. My LiSOCl2 AAs pack 10 times that.