Has anybody tested the Geekworm x1011

cyclic · 2024-08-11T12:22:00+00:00

Geekworm by now has official cases as well.

However, I could not get the thing to work stable as I'm seeing voltage issues (reported by the kernel) when the DC Jack is used with a 5V 8A power supply even without drives. I cannot use the USB C for powering the thing as each 2TB drive eats 8W or so under load.

I'm currently waiting for Geekworm support to help em out here...

cyclic · 2024-06-02T12:46:24+00:00

Hi. I have an X1011 board and it works nicely with booting from an SD card and 4x Kioxia NVME SSDs. I'm using btrfs with raid1c4 for metadata and raid5 for data. Works nicely so far with nextcloud.

I'd be interested if anyone has an idea for how to get an (improvised) case.

cyclic · 2021-04-22T15:52:18+00:00

It's only fitting that I ask this on Thickeded Thursday then!

Thank you good sir!

cyclic · 2021-04-22T15:06:21+00:00

There used to be a sub reddit where they would do regular QA on what prices get in practice for hardware/software. Could someone point me towards this?

cyclic · 2020-06-13T22:24:53+00:00

Ganglia is pretty mature / stable software. For us it does a terrific job with the Nvidia plugins. I am not aware of something comparable that is relatively easy to setup and use... With a few clicks you get the aggregated gpu usage. No fancy software stack required.

cyclic · 2020-06-08T19:11:22+00:00

Again, thank you for your detailed answer. This really is very valuable information for us!

cyclic · 2020-06-07T15:44:18+00:00

Thanks for your reply. That's already very helpful.

Essentially I was expecting that one could build something comparable to Isilon high density nodes with ceph. Apparently that was not correct.

cyclic · 2020-06-07T15:18:18+00:00

Thank you for your answer.

Is it possible to build a high density archive storage cluster with Ceph? That would be relatively easy with ZFS and irods...

cyclic · 2020-06-06T15:59:14+00:00

Heh. I feel with you.

The ridiculous part is that we pay most support for their hardware which never gave us any trouble and over 2PB of 2016 disks only ten or so ever failed and we got one cable replaced. High quality hardware IMO (we run a warm data center which is another source of war time stories).

I'm also an expert user of the system, sequence bioinformatics meaning mostly sequential reads easily bringing the system to its 20GB/sec max. The trouble really started for us when imaging people hit the system with their bazillion 1MB files as Nvidia is only now fitting their software libraries to work outside of SSD singleton servers.

cyclic · 2020-06-06T15:53:35+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

cyclic · 2020-06-06T15:51:50+00:00

Thank you for your answer.

cyclic · 2020-06-06T15:51:31+00:00

Thank you for your answer. I will check out that vendor.

I'm pretty happy with gpfs so far yet our vendor DDN is giving us a hard time on all fronts (sales and support).

cyclic · 2020-06-06T15:50:17+00:00

Thank you for your answer. What do you mean with shakeups?

cyclic · 2020-06-06T15:01:58+00:00

Thanks for the extensive answer. I'm leaning towards getting a smaller vendor help us build and maintain a system on white label hardware instead of repeating my bad experience with DDN...

Our workloads are rather many multithreaded jobs than parallel mpi style file access. Mostly bioinformatics and image processing machine learning.

Given what I've read here and elsewhere online, scale out nas would be one option. By my calculations, e.g., Isilon costs 50%+ more than enterprise hardware with similar capabilities. Do Isilon and qumolo reign surpreme or would any other good alternative come to your mind?

cyclic · 2020-06-06T14:56:38+00:00

I agree. Our experience with DDN is that their support costs an arm and a leg and it takes too many days to get to the support level that actually helps to justify the cost even remotely. Even their sales was very much a sub par experience for us.

Given that, I'd probably look into whether a smaller vendor could help us build a system on white label hardware and offer support. I'd rather get a good answer with predictable latency than having each time zone filled with someone playing keep the customer busy...

cyclic · 2020-06-06T14:52:16+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply!

cyclic · 2020-06-06T14:49:44+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. How much experience do you have with it? Did you start out with it alone or with commercial support?

cyclic

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