Accidentally Built a Nuclear Supercomputer.

A few months ago, I built my very first gaming PC. Felix, it started a whole journey of me installing Linux, writing my very first line of code, completely deging, running my own self-host. But there's one truth that I can't escape. In order to successfully ascend, I need more compute. The less I touch grass, the more I touch the clouds. That's right. I'm building a new computer. So, let's talk specs. I got the Pro VS X90E. This motherboard is huge. It says Nihango Questto Gaido. That means good luck. Gajun. I got the AMD thread 7975. There it is. Don't ask how much I spent to power this. I got 130 W. God damn. I actually got two of them. Two pisu. Fun fact, these two generate as much as um an average Japanese household. I am sorry. Storage. [Music] I spent so much on everything. I had to save money somewhere. God damn. 96 GB of RAM. And that's only half as much as I need. You don't understand. I'm going to space. I'm not playing around now. GPUs. Has everyone lost their goddamn minds? What are these prices? I look everywhere. I cannot find a GPU that doesn't cost my soul. And I'm not even asking for that much for it. I recently traveled to Sweden and Italy and I thought, "Oh, I could like get a good deal then. Maybe Japan is the problem." No, it's everyone. There were so many variables to consider when sourcing GPUs that I was going crazy. I I just like there's what the I even read a bot. I put in a script that would scan the market for GPUs and that way I could maybe then consider what what the best option is to get least amount of screwed. And then the bot kept spitting out these weird lines of URLs. I'm like what the [ __ ] is this? What is this? This means nothing. This is gibberish. And then I realized oh these are antibbot measurements. I am the problem that I'm trying to solve. God damn it. Ultimately, I settled for these Love Lace RTX 4000. These are not exciting graphics card. But, but if you get seven of If you get seven of them, then it gets interesting. They have 20 GB of VRAM. Great. For cooling, I use an A all-in-one cooler. Looks a bit suspicious. The the front panel fell off. Okay. Now, if Marcia asks, "How much did you spend on all of this? This seems crazy." I prepared a script, and I need you to memorize this in case she double checks you to verify it. This has to be rock solid. Okay. All right. Here we go. Well, it is not about how much it cost, but how much it saves. You see, a build of this caliber replaces the need for cloud computation. At current market rates for, let's say, $2 per GPU, multiplied by seven GPUs, we run this for 8 hours a day, 6 months. Bing, bada boom, this thing is paid for itself. Well, you see, the math doesn't lie. Okay, that would be around $20,160. Poof, evaporated to the cloud. Now, that would just be irresponsible spending, wouldn't it? This is way better. All of this, I get full privacy. 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So, this machine is going green. Last but not least, the case. My last computer drove me insane. I had it's a mini ITX or whatever. The thing annoyed me. That's all that matters. I was building this thing as a complete noob. Millimeter difference made that parts just wasn't compatible. And that to me makes no sense. If you're building a computer, parts should be interchangeable. Where's my goddamn versatility? I recently changed GPU on it and poof, the case doesn't fit anymore. Great. I changed it to an open air case and I'm like that looks damn good. I don't have to worry about space and beautiful airflow. I get that uh collecting dust is a bit of a problem, but it's breathing the same air I'm breathing. It's fine. I don't want to put all this spaceship hardware into a shoe box. Okay. So, I'm building my own case this time so I can have full freedom for do I want. I have never built my own case before. This might be a disaster. We're about to find out. Let's build this goddamn thing. Welcome to the floor. This is where I will spend most of today. I'm planning to use these aluminum extrusions. The size is 3030. I have never built with these before. The reason I picked these is cuz they're strong, they're lightweight, and relatively cheap. I got it from a local Japanese company. So, without further ado, let's channel my IKEA energy and uh I'm going to try and get the frame started. First, I uh tested out the layout, see what was the best way to do it. I even made a 3D model of the planks. Uh so, I started putting pieces together and I made the frame. It all looked great. Okay, the frame is done. And you get my toe in this shot as well. I think this is going to look nice. I like the black coating. It looks good. I'm getting positive vibes. Then I realized I had to make my own holes into this metal. You can make your own screw holes by tapping. I never done this before. So I was terrible at it. This method, it required so much precision to fit the motherboard properly. And I realized I don't have that kind of precision. So I had to figure out a different method. You just have to use this barbecue secret sauce and it works like butter. Just got to do this thousand times. No big deal. I laid out the PSUs the way I was going to do it. Originally, I was planning to keep them on the sides, but I figured a more optimal version. Okay, the PSU mount is finished. Best part, I can do that. And I think for like for what it is, it fits pretty well. These are actually meant for fans. I just need something to hold in case there's an earthquake. I just couldn't find actual PSU holders that would didn't take 6 years to arrive to Japan. So, I had the my guy written. I think all in all, not bad. I had to figure out where how to mount the cooler as well. With this build, I could just put all the GPUs together like a giant GPU cheeseburger, but that's a terrible idea. So, I'm planning to have one down, one up, one down, one up, one down, one up, so that they give space to breathe. The GPU brackets I bought just didn't fit at all, so I had to figure out a different way to do it. Luckily, working with aluminum is quite easy once you get the hang of it. You can move anything around, just flap it about. But it meant I had to make my own GPU bracket, which is fine. And I will have to tap that one because I can just move everything around. I kept rebuilding it. I kept thinking, "Oh, it's better if this one goes there and this one goes there." So, okay. So, I guess you could say this is version number three. I keep changing it cuz I keep finding better ways to optimize it. It's a lot of extra work, but I I don't mind doing it, and I feel like a build like this deserves a proper thought and attention to it. So, it's going to be good. I just have to redo everything for the fourth time. All right, nearly there. Got the layout laid out. I just got to drill the holes and I got to cut these and then after that, yeah, should be pretty good. But finally, I knew more or less and it was time to saw. That was loud. I was not prepared for how loud that was. This project took forever because I kept running into stupid problems like screws being the wrong size. I keep messing up the dumbest things. I finally have all the standoffs all in place, but the screws are too big. These are like M4 or M M5. I I guess I need 4.5 or four. It's so annoying. It's so annoying. Oh my god, I already waited so long for this. Like, I can't do anything until the motherboard is in place. So, I'm kind of stuck now. I guess I can put on some the RAM and the SD. Ah, it's okay. It don't matter. I don't care. The electrical socket not fitting my plugs. Everything just took another day because it's like uh uh and I kept rebuilding it and changing it. But it was finally time to put the motherboard in. I finally get to put in the motherboard properly cuz I I only had like five of these. I needed five more. Who cares? It going in this bad boy. Why is it so uneven? There we go. Okay. Me other mounted pesos mounted. It was worth the extra effort cuz I think this is going to come out looking nice. It's good. It's good. Is good. Everything good. Anyway, we're going to install the fans. I got no top. These are the best of the base. I'm going to put this on the uh AIO. I bet the screws are wrong for this ones, too. They actually might be now I'm worried about I mounted the storage. Next up, my memory. Sorry, my storage. Damn. Damn, son. Which one is slot one then? I have no idea. Okay, you do that and then you slide it. Boom. And then this you don't have to peel as well, but I'm going to do it just for fun cuz I like peeling things. Question is, do I have to peel all of them? Even if there's nothing there, I don't think so. Nailed it. the ram and I was terrified to click too hard. I don't know why. You just have to push with both hands, dummy. Okay, I'm not going to lie. You kind of have to shove them in there. That's kind of violent. There you go. That was good. That was clean. Four out of eight. I realized I didn't peel off the stickers. Are you kidding me? I really didn't want to remake all the mistakes I made on my first computer build, so I was like, "This time I'm going to read the instructions. surprise. It didn't do any difference. I put in the CPU and then I added the cooler and it was really terrifying because the CPU is it's really expensive. This is too much money for an idiot like me to handle. But here we go. Oh god, it's sliding. It has a slid. I removed the cover. We put it down. See, that doesn't look like it even fits. Okay, there we go. There you go. The CPU is the most expensive part of this build, so I was terrified of messing this up. And of course, I mess it up. The problem wasn't the how I mounted the CPU. It was how I mounted the cooler. I thought I shouldn't screw it too tight because then it might be like not good and kill it. Obviously, we don't want to overtighten it. So, when it finally came to booting it, it just didn't boot because it didn't detect the CPU cooler because I didn't screw it tight enough. And it took me a long time to figure that out. That's worth a little problem solving for you. Well, I damn. I didn't expect it to work to be honest. You're looking at 600,000 cables and any one of them could be the problem. I flashed the drive. I was going to use Iuntu this time around because it has better driver compatibility and I don't feel like installing ours for the fifth time this year. Sue me. Another issue I ran into was a lot of the GPUs just didn't work and I didn't understand why. You see that? That's the first time I get more than one GPU showing up. What did I do differently this time? I don't [ __ ] know. I don't know. I kept thinking it was the motherboard, but it turns out I didn't click in the cables properly. It's like the biggest noob mistake ever. Just like make sure the cables are in. The amount of problems I ran into with this build. Nothing was smooth. Nothing. So then it was time to check out the drivers. Guess what? The drivers don't work either. Well, why don't you eat my But finally, all the GPUs were detected and the drivers worked glorious and I could finally do what I set out to do, which is run all these six GPUs that I had parallel as one strong unit. The problem is I didn't know a [ __ ] all about tensor parallelism. Okay, you can only run tensor parallelisms by the power of two. I had six. It ain't linear. You know how there's Nintendo 64? Well, they ain't no Nintendo 72. You can't run six. You can't run TP6, but you can run TP4. So, I actually sold two of the GPUs. Yeah, I could run Llama 3 70B 70 billion parameters. That's pretty cool. It's a very strong model. And I can offload some of the RAM even on my system RAM. That's pretty cool. It's a lot of RAM. Felt like the reasonable and smart thing to do in my situation. Except that's what not what I did at all. Gamblers's fallacy. I have gone this far. I'm not going to stop now. I got two more GPUs. God damn it. Eight GPUs to roll them all. Lucky I went with a double pesu cuz there's no more PCIe on this one. I need one more. I don't know how to describe this feeling, but I feel like I've done something that I was not supposed to do. I look at this thing and I get scared. There's boss music playing in the background when I'm hooking this up. Six was okay. Eight is just get it's just getting bonkers. I don't know. It's ridicul. I don't know if it's going to run. I don't know if it's going to work. Will it detect all the jeep get poos? I don't know. And you may have looked at my rig and maybe you're like a super detective and super genius or something, but my board has seven slots. How are you going to fit eight on there? Easy. I had looked this up. Bifurcation. It basically means you can split one of your PCIe slots into half and you can fit two GPUs on therea I'm being ironically cringe but by being that I'm actually cringe. Okay, let's just cut that. This is perfect. This solves all my problem. I just plug in two GPUs and I'm done with it. I get to eight. Basically, what that means is I don't have to buy like a server grade motherboard that costs $5,000 and change out my entire CPU and all that, you know, like the price will just get ridiculous. So, if I can just change the settings in my BIOS, I can do it. So, I completed my goal, which has just been a goal for no reason. Like, I don't even care, but I have to do this now. But to my surprise, my motherboard doesn't do 8x8 by fication. Why? I don't know. Why not? Why? Why aces? Other cards do it that you used to do it. Just do it. Just put it the thing. I looked up everywhere online. You can get cards that actively do it for you, but they're super expensive. That that goes against the whole plan. You can just do it if you just add it. I thought I was crazy. I was like, "Okay, surely no one tries to really maximize their motherboard like I'm trying to do now." That's why we have this issue. I find a thread online. There are other people out there just like me. They're crazy. They're all complaining. Why, Asus? Why? [ __ ] This pisses me off, man. So, I looked up. There's so many Chinese cards that say, "Yeah, we split your in Chinese accent, but that's racist." So, instead, I do like a little like, "Yeah, we do it." Maybe they literally say that. You read I look for hours for the product and I'm like, "This is it. I found it, Martia." And then I read the fine print. It's like, "Oh, but maybe uh yes, this is gen 4 speed. Don't worry, but maybe it will be gen 3." I'm like, "How the [ __ ] can you say that? It either is or isn't. I got computers and binaries. I'm not I'm not going to risk it." So, okay, there are cards that can do it. Maybe cost like 500, 600 bucks. But I live in Japan and they got to ship on board and it's going to take me another 2 weeks and I'm just like, I just want to finish this [ __ ] thing. So, I found I found a guy. Okay, I found a guy that has the BIOS. He says he has the BIOS. There's a forum thread and he's like, "Guys, I got the BIOS. I asked ASUS for the bios." So, I'm asking the guy, "Give me the bios." I never thought I would be the kind of person that looks through forums and asks someone for their what the what kind of sketchy [ __ ] is this? I got to ask people for bios now from a random person on the internet and in a forum thread that allegedly has it. That's where I am right now. And I'm not finishing this until I completed my goal. I got the message. He wrote me. The random person on the internet sent me their bios. Asus didn't respond whatsoever. But the guy sent me his bios. I was so excited like a kid on Christmas. I flashed the BIOS. The light kept blinking forever. I was stressing out. Is it going to work? It's the random guy that sent me the BIOS going to work. I checked out his profile, by the way, and he seemed like a good person. I I really feel like uh this is not some elaborate way of hacking my computer. It just seemed like a someone that genuinely wanted to help, but who knows? Finally, the BIOS stopped blinking and they were done. I booted up and bada bing bada boom. It actually booted. A go to a zero, please. Uh maybe. Yeah. Okay, it actually booted. Oh my god. It all comes down. I I forgot the command cuz I'm so nervous. Oh, it worked. Oh, yes. Yes. Hey, finally. Okay, now we're going to get a whole I'm going to get all [ __ ] eight of them to work and they're going to they're going to sweat. I'm going to make them pain. You're going to be in pain. I cannot mount them like this. I literally just like panic did everything. I can't believe it. I did it. I did it. I did Stubbornness whims. Eight. Everything works. They are all working. They're working together. Together the brains. 8* 8 bifurcation works. No thanks to you, Acus. Well, technically, but not really. Okay. I've been running this for a couple days now, and it is great. I am so happy how this turned out. It was worth all the effort. I had three concerns before the build, which Oh, Bern is here. Hi, Bern. I'm wrapping up the video. Do you want to go through the ending? Number one was the noise. You can barely hear it, right? Number two was the power consumption. I vastly overestimated the power consumption. Idle, these GPUs sit at 150 watts, which is nothing, right, Bern? He's enamored by this. Okay, go to your mama. It's too distract. You're too cute. I'm still glad I got the double pisu, but it doesn't need it whatsoever. Uh, the last was uh temperature. I was really worried it was going to get too hot, but the open air case works and the whole staggered method with the GPUs works. It all works. TP8 works. I have eight working GPUs without losing speed. That's the big caveat. And without spending a billion dollars. That's the big caveat. Now I can run all of these computers together as one. What am I going to do with that? I don't know. I just set this goal for myself because I knew it could be done. And by the kindness of a random stranger online and a lot of perseverance, I made it happen cuz I knew it could. I knew it was possible. And it feels so goddamn good. Tech stuff is like Dark Souls. All right. There's this imaginary difficulty that you set out for yourself. People ask, "Why do you play that game? It's just difficult." It's like, but that's what makes it fun when you manage to overcome it. Okay, I know it's not real. It's just a video game. It's the same thing. I'm calling this computer Odysius because I was reading uh the Iliad at the time, which is one of my favorite books, and the translation called Odysius, the Always Thinking, which is what I want this computer to do. But the name fit even better because this thing is cursed. I mean, look at it. And you know, just like Odysius, it took a long time to get home in the end, but we got there. No matter what obstacles were thrown at us, we got there in the end. This was supposed to be a simple video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. That's it. Thank you guys for watching and I'll look forward to share the next project with you guys. Profess. Oh, thank you, man. You threw a t-shirt on me. Thank you, Baron. Yeah, it's a t-shirt. All right, so me and Marcia, we love to travel. We go back to Italy and Sweden every year. What used to be a problem was figuring out how to get internet. Now there is SY, an eim service that is so good, you have to try out. No more Wi-Fi renting and returning. 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