End result? designed and modded an Arduino-powered PWM controller into the server, complete with watchdog functionality – to keep the overheating scenario risks low. Someone wrote a modded firmware to fix this issue, but that firmware had a brick risk didn’t want to take. Turns out, the dual GPUs confused the board management controller too much. A bigger problem was that the server was unusually loud. First, a proprietary hardware RAID controller backup battery had to be replaced with a regular NiMH battery pack. This Proliant server is a piece of impressive hardware designed to run 24/7, with a dual CPU option, eighteen RAM slots, and hardware RAID for HDDs old enough that replacement and upgrade parts are cheap, but new enough that it’s a suitable workhorse for ’s needs!Īfter justifying some peculiar choices like using dual low-power GPUs, only populating twelve out of eighteen RAM slots, and picking Windows over Linux, describes some hardware mods needed to make this server serve well.

Looking for budget-friendly high-performance computers is a disappointing task nowadays, thus, it was time for a ten-year-old HP Proliant 380-g6 to come out of Dave’s storage rack. Our own started running into bottlenecks when doing paid work involving simulations of undisclosed kind, and resolved to get a separate computer for that.

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