Farm status
CPU only
Running some Milkyway and Einstein work from time to time.
Nvidia GPUs
Off.
Raspberry Pis
Running Einstein@home work.
For more information on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Other news
The farm has been running in part for the last year although I haven't posted about it. Mainly its been the Raspberry Pis, with the CPU only machines running from time to time.
I am looking at upgrading the x86 machines. I have a couple of Ryzen 7900X machines to replace the Ryzen 5900X machines ie the CPU only part of the farm, but I am looking at the GPU crunchers now. I generally go for a low-end CPU (maybe a Ryzen 7600X) as its main purpose is to support the GPU. I had a quick look at the GTX-5060 Ti's which seem to have a higher clock speed but 200 or so less Cuda cores than what I have at the moment (GTX-3060 Ti's).
Debian Trixie is about a week or so out from release. While Debian seem to have added support for the Gnome 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3.6 desktops, the Mate desktop is the same one as Debian bookworm despite there being a more up-to-date version of Mate released in Feb 2024.
Update: 7th of August
I downloaded the trixie release candidate 2 and installed it on one of the Ryzen 5900X machines. Apart from the wallpaper and apt it looks the same as bookworm. The same installation instructions that I follow for bookworm worked without any changes.
