[Ground-station] Lab PC work - update!

[Robert McGwier]

It has taken me 7 months to build a two RTX-3090 GPU with NVLINK, AMD
Threadripper 3970x,  256 GB RAM, 6 TB of M.2 NVME SSD, and 14TB of disk
drive slow storage for training of large deep neural nets and other major
signal processing applications.  I chose to build this myself and made
$1100 in mistakes but saved thousands more and took about one month longer
than paying someone else to do it.  Using the mistakes I built a ham shack
and observatory control and inference computer.

It is a hellacious time to build high-performance systems.

I will provide a link here to the talk I am preparing for online
presentation to be transferred to the conference committee on February 1.

This was all very much a PITA but saved me from insanity during isolation.

Bob
N4HY


Dr. Robert W McGwier, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Tech
ARDC Member of Board
ARS: N4HY
ARRL, AMSAT, AAVSO, TAPR, SkyHub

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 1:37 PM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> If any of you have tried to source high-end parts for PCs, you know these
> are tricky times! However, we have lots of progress to report on the lab PC
> for San Diego.
>
> Big thank you to the team in Florida for finding, reserving, researching,
> and building hardware. Things are coming together for this system, which
> will host the DVB verification gear and run the Trenz rack and the Xilinx
> ZCU106 dev board.
>
> -Michelle W5NYV
>
>
>
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