Topic

Hardware

A collection of 4 issues

Folding @ Home on TX2

Let me clarify first that this post is not about running GPU enabled folding. For that, some hardware enablement is missing, and thus it'll be really hard to port it, though I may attempt that in future. For CPU performance, TX2 packs decent power, specially with 2 Denver Cores, 4

Why I love OpenZFS

First of all, let me clarify that this post uses OpenZFS, but the technology marvel that it is is based on ZFS, which is something that I truly appreciate. However the original implementation of ZFS was built for BSD Solaris with some license concerns, but OpenZFS clearly integrated with Linux

TX2 Hashing Performance

I recently got 3 TX2(s) donated to me by my friend Sri Krishna Acharya. I did flash it using a comprehensive tutorial provided by him plus slight modifications using an old Macbook Pro running Ubuntu 18.04 (so many NVIDIA quirks here, that this deserves it own blog post)

Onion Omega as a Fan Controller

Final setup, up close.I’m a really big fan of passive cooling rather than active cooling. In fact, as much as possible, I also prefer air cooling over water cooling. Not that I like to run my chips hot, it’s just that I don’t like the noise