Building a bare-metal validator for
Solana https://solana.comThe vision behind Solana is a system that scales with the hardware and bandwidth it’s supplied with.
So I want to build a high spec machine to keep up with the solana network 400ms block time 50.000 tps as long as possible with out needing to upgrade hardware along the line.
I built mining rigs before but this one is very different as GPUs on solana actually serve a purpose, to speed up transactions per second solving for time and confirmations compared to bitcoin and eth where GPUs serve to slow down the network playing a lottery of sorts.
currently I am planning a build to stake my own Solana investment with below parts which the docs recommended
https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqsAMD Threadripper 3990x — 64 Cores, 2.20GHz
128GB 2666MHz DDR4 ECC RAM
3x RTX 2080 Ti, 11GB GDDR6, 4352 CUDA Cores
1x 4TB Samsung 970 PRO NVME M.2 SSD
As I understand the network uses all available hardware resources to speed up confirmation at millisecond levels and insane amount of transactions per second
I know that this machine is going to get hot, I couldn't decide on a
power supply? for this setup and a compact UPS,
anyone with some experience I need some suggestions. I tried to write on their discord but most discussions there are read-only.
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