8-OCT-2024

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Full disclosure, I scrapped an old entry that was incoherent, I was jotting down a TODO List and not making a lot of sense.

I got a P40 installed in BTG, and I’m working on figuring out if I can set it up as an MDEV or if I just need to passthru to randy and call it. I’m leaning toward the latter. I have a 2080 also hanging around that I’ll install once the P40 is working. Between these I should have plenty of GPU horsepower to insource my LLM usage and also get a proper dev VM built for both randy (for normal work) and hardie (for security/pentesting).

I’m hoping that if I can get the MDEV set up, I’ll be able to run a few VMs backed by at least the P40, ideally it’s the main ‘development’ card; and then I can use later hardware for the actual compute task on DOP.

Spricht, DOP is getting set up to work as a development machine right now, the build times on hazel are getting out of hand and it’s not like DOP is doing anything else right now.

Besides these minor roadblocks (like having no idea how MDEV works), things proceed apace. I’ve been focusing much more on hazel recently, so the lab work has slowed. I’m using it as a testbed for some tools I need to build for brocard. In particular working with ratatui has been pretty fun, and tokio less terrifying than advertised.