Data Center Mining Garage and Man Mining Cave ( PART 2 !!!!!!!!)

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

Looking great there yun, keep up the good work 

[CryptoWatcher420]

Marvel - You wouldn't have this issue if you had more powerful PSU!  HAhahaha........  7 x 470 and you can't power it?  COME ON, stop buying 1KW PSU!! The FANs are waiting.  Shut down another rig and bring another baby PSU over to help.  Just kidding.    Thanks for the update. You make me very happy as I have 15 of these.

4-5KW Baby 4-5KW Baby!  Holla at Finksy, time for a upgrade.  I have 5 on the way in preparation for VEGAs and 2 for Protypes.

A little PEEP Show of my progress.  I'm ALL ABOUT DA BASS!!!!!!!!!!! THE CRYPTO BASS!  5th Rack is 50% populated with GPUs on the way to fill em. 

6th reserved for the VEGAAAAAAAAS!

Hi,

what exact is the model of server rack that you are using?

Also, are you throwing the hot air up the rack? or from the front?

Thanks

he is using various brand server racks but there all 42U server racks, which can fit about 9 to 10 of the 4u server cases

[takagari]

Do you guys use the cheaper open air racks or the pricey fancy racks for those?

[Marvell1]

Do you guys use the cheaper open air racks or the pricey fancy racks for those?

I think for a large scale deployment like he is doing this is the best way to do it since you can better control the direction of heat

[yun9999]

@  onefinecoin  - Still considered Domestic as it's still all at home.  Only hosting I do is for a friend at cost as he's the one that show me Eth mining.  =)

@ darkshaddows - Dell and HP 42U Racks.  

@ m1n1ngP4d4w4n -  Thanks...........just getting warm up bud.  Got more crazier / sexier prototypes coming out of my lab in a few weeks

@ takagari - Open Air if you can easily modified structures like my Shed, warehouse, etc.  Cheapest, fast to deploy and if you can mod structure, it's not hard to control heat.  This style is due to limited control of what I can do for heat removal.  Lots more work but I also want clean no cable mess and sexiness.  =)

[joaocha]

Soooo very happy the MB's work!  Saved a ton and ready for a full rack's worth of expansion now.  

This 4k is moving from 390s to Vega .

Which PSU are you using?

[yun9999]

The same PSU, I've been discussing.  2 x IBM 2KW PSU Finksy sells plus his 4KW board.  
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1308296.0

It also work with the IBM DPS2500W PSU too making it over 4500W.  Many of the large miners use it as they had it from the Bitcoin mining.  You pair this Beast with the PICOs you get many Beauties.  More to come on that.  Waiting on PICOs, PSU and FANs from Finksy.

[Zimmsquad]

Yun9999,

Can you explain how in the future we would be able to use the 4kw server PSU to power the entire computer? Or is that not what you want from finsky? I guess I don't really know what PICO is. I would love to be able to get PSUs for cheaper with nice efficiency ratings

[yun9999]

I will show step by step on that.  Here is short idea.

OLD WAY
Baby ATX PSU (Crap efficiency and reliability)  powers risers and MB.  Bulky, cheap but not cheap enough and if you go really cheap (Below $45-50), it's more headache then it's worth.  More wires and a big ATX PSU behind your rig blocking flow and your acccessibility to the GPUs. 

PICO OLD Way
Expensive and the built in CPU connector is too short to reach our mining Rig CPU connection.  You need to use bulky AC adapter which makes it more expensive and more connections and things to plug in and hide. $40-60 each!  Too much money

*********PICO NEW WAY***************
Powered completely by Server PSU via 6 pin direct to soldered PICO connection or via 2.5MM Barrel connector.  It would also split to power the CPU connections.  The PICO PSU comes with at least 1 molex and 1 SATA connection so you can power SSD, etc.  98% of your power will come from the SERVER PSU.  Even if you got a crappy Pico, if it dies.  It's a cheap $20-25 replacement.  The PICO PSU is tiny and the size of the motherboard connector head.  You won't see it.  The server PSU cable can go up to 48" easily.  Using PCI powered risers and splitters, you reduce all the SATA, MOLEX, MB cable clutters.  Also no ATX PSU in the rear of the rig.  So better airflow.  I will have lots of examples later but look at my previous examples on the Ebay PICO I bought.

[Zimmsquad]

Wow that sounds great. So are we just waiting for Finsky/hawkfish to work together and offer these to the community here so we can buy them?

Also, how many plugs from the server PSU do you need for the mobo connector and CPU spot on the mobo? Curious how many rigs you can power with 1 of the 4kw psus using this new pico method.

[yun9999]

The goal is to just use 1 PCI slot per PICO PSU.  So you can easily power 4 rigs no issues using splitter cables.  1 6pin cable split to power both the GPU and the 6pin  riser.  It's going to be DAMN SEXY and SO CLEAN.  Please with the longer cablings, you can do very funky designs.   Finksy just got back from Vaca.  He's going to send me a bunch of stuff for the many different prototypes.  The possibility is endless and so is the POWER!  FORGET 1KW, 1300 or even EVGA 1600 limitations!!!  4-4500W!!!   RIDICULOUS POWER and READY for any GPU u want to throw at it.   All my 4KW is tied up so I'm waiting for more from Finksy and a ton of PICOs to do many different designs.


P.S Cryptowatcher will be my main man for Custom cabling.  It will be known as MY CRYPTO CABLES!!  I can see him filling in our community needs for custom cablings.  Will see what he can come up with for my Prototypes.  Very excited with everyone's contribution to my project.

[CryptoWatcher420]

The goal is to just use 1 PCI slot per PICO PSU.  So you can easily power 4 rigs no issues using splitter cables.  1 6pin cable split to power both the GPU and the 6pin  riser.  It's going to be DAMN SEXY and SO CLEAN.  Please with the longer cablings, you can do very funky designs.   Finksy just got back from Vaca.  He's going to send me a bunch of stuff for the many different prototypes.  The possibility is endless and so is the POWER!  FORGET 1KW, 1300 or even EVGA 1600 limitations!!!  4-4500W!!!   RIDICULOUS POWER and READY for any GPU u want to throw at it.   All my 4KW is tied up so I'm waiting for more from Finksy and a ton of PICOs to do many different designs.


P.S Cryptowatcher will be my main man for Custom cabling.  It will be known as MY CRYPTO CABLES!!  I can see him filling in our community needs for custom cablings.  Will see what he can come up with for my Prototypes.  Very excited with everyone's contribution to my project.

yes yes, custom cables for nhan's prototypes! as soon as I get most of the supplies I need I will post up some pic's of the cables after making some

[citronick]

yun - this air flow strategy -- does it work?

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

@ m1n1ngP4d4w4n -  Thanks...........just getting warm up bud.  Got more crazier / sexier prototypes coming out of my lab in a few weeks

Damn man, i would dream to have enough means to realize all the craziness going through my head, at least i can vicariously realise a portion of that through you ahah  

yun - this air flow strategy -- does it work?

This is respecting the optimised air flow scheme you can find in any good datacenters, the principles of cold / hot aisles, in the cold aisle in front of the racks, you bring AC air from the ground, then this air get sucked up from the front of the rack, pass through the servers, and get rejected in the back in the hot aisle, where it's sucked up from the ceiling ventilation system. The tarp at the top of the rack serve as a separation between both aisles for optimised air flow and balanced negative pressure

here is a schematic explaining this system.



Yun does it with normal air circulation instead of AC air, but the principle is the same.

[citronick]

@ m1n1ngP4d4w4n -  Thanks...........just getting warm up bud.  Got more crazier / sexier prototypes coming out of my lab in a few weeks

Damn man, i would dream to have enough means to realize all the craziness going through my head, at least i can vicariously realise a portion of that through you ahah  

yun - this air flow strategy -- does it work?

This is respecting the optimised air flow scheme you can find in any good datacenters, the principles of cold / hot aisles, in the cold aisle in front of the racks, you bring AC air from the ground, then this air get sucked up from the front of the rack, pass through the servers, and get rejected in the back in the hot aisle, where it's sucked up from the ceiling ventilation system. The tarp at the top of the rack serve as a separation between both aisles for optimised air flow and balanced negative pressure

here is a schematic explaining this system.



Yun does it with normal air circulation instead of AC air, but the principle is the same.

Fascinating -- will be looking forward to the final build. Thanks for sharing this in detail.

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

Fascinating -- will be looking forward to the final build. Thanks for sharing this in detail.

You're welcome, yun will probably dazzle us with more infos later on hehe 

[takagari]

@ takagari - Open Air if you can easily modified structures like my Shed, warehouse, etc.  Cheapest, fast to deploy and if you can mod structure, it's not hard to control heat.  This style is due to limited control of what I can do for heat removal.  Lots more work but I also want clean no cable mess and sexiness.  =)

Figured it would work, some board/plastic panels ont he sides would make your $130 machine as effective as 1300 lol. maybe not as pretty
s for cabling, I'm pretty anal about that so it would be cleaned.

[citronick]

Hi yun- I need help on getting the Biostar connected to SRR.

How did you layout your pins?

Thanks

[KaydenC]

Might be a very long shot, but this Msi Mobo has 6 Pcie slots and 3 M2 slots. 9Gpu system anyone?

Link: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z270-GAMING-M7.html#productSpecification-section

There is no mention that using any of the M.2 slots will disable Pcie slots. To my understanding, Z270 has 24 pcie lanes. If they route it this way, it might be possible. x8/x4/x4 (16x slots) , x1/x1/x1 (1x slots), x1/x1/x1 (M.2 slots)

[Zimmsquad]

I don't really understand how the splitting works. How can a single 6 pin be split so much when a 6 pin can only provide 75 watts of power?