I have lost my mind... nVidia GRID/Tesla Cloud Gaming Server

A Patron of mine sent over a link to purchase a Tesla K10 card for only $40. And that's when the trouble all started...

But first... What am I drinking???

Lompac Brewing's (Portland, OR) Red on Rye barrel aged Red Ale. Wow, this is a phenomenal brew. Malty, oaky, with a bit of a toffee flavor... velvety smooth... I can't say enough good things about this one. Go find one and enjoy. 6.0% ABV

The whole idea behind this project is to create a self-hosted cloud gaming system. This is typically achieved with nVidia's GRID series of cards. But licensure on newer GRID cards, and the hypervisors that support their use, are prohibitively expensive. Luckily the GRID K2 has no such license requirements. But that doesn't mean this server is actually going to work when I'm done.

The Tesla K10 is an identical card to the GRID K2, but with 3D rendering disabled by the firmware. The goal will be to hard mod the Tesla cards into GRID cards, and that will happen in the next video.

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[keezyavaleri]

This video gave me as much anxiety as a Hoovies Garage video. You're just amazing man lol.

[_am]

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

[Meckmester]

Does anyone else see a slight out of sync between picture and audio or do I have another problem I need to fix now..?

[JessNikDragon]

I am super excited to see the conclusion of this project. I just bought a Grids K2 card to test this out and see how it is done. I am running an HP DL380p Gen8 and hope to expand it to take 2-4 gamers via some remote protocol (RDP is preferred) I will stay tuned and if there is any collaboration that we can do just let me know. Honestly local or even housed in the same building server based gaming is something that I think will be important in the future. I think it is especially applicable in the E sports marketplace.

[CoreyPL]

This is exactly why I like this channel :D Also seeing your suggestion on JayzTwoCents was a nice surprise :)

[krusic]

I have a Tesla K10, used it in Blender for a while. You can mod the bios using the fermi/kepler bios editor and overvolt the GPU to 1.2V (1.25+ will trip OVP) and remove the power limit. I got 850Mhz on the core and +700Mhz on the memory.
A very nice boost.

[nayber]

I am liking every single video in this series, and sharing this everywhere. I've been trying to do this for years now, (research only so far, need to save some money to start it)
If this project even remotely works, then I am going in raw dog

[Brian_Buckley]

Also, Kudos on the Jay's 2 cents shout out! i cheered out loud!

[gaiustrollius]

There's also qemu/kvm which you can use with a Linux host. You're familiar with nvidia not liking visualized environments, but there's a (not so easy) workaround that will enable you to run a virtual machine inside qemu, using any operating system you want for the guest: in a nutshell, you have to prevent the host from initializing the GPU (during the post process) you want to pass through, then dump the GPU boot firmware into the virtual machine's BIOS so it can initialize it. The result is that the guest will detect the GPU like a physical one, so no error code 43, and you get to use the operating system of your choice for the guest.

[dikranpoladian]

I'm constantly amazed at the trouble companies go to to cripple there hardware for specific uses.

[abedfo]

I've no idea what you just said. But I did enjoy it. Looking forward to part 2!

[GearSeekers]

I love the premise of this! Great job!

[Angryfuture]

Omg. I'm so into this.
The grid cards AND the mention of plex transcoding.

[raiscl]

HolyMolly... I need a beer after this vid. You're crazy man! That's why we love you.

[illiterate]

YIKES! What a nightmare. I sincerely thank you for doing these types of videos though. Keep it coming.

[cheycheyc]

Loving this videos content Jeff!!. I can't wait for the next one. Want to dabble myself into setting up a server for gaming but the anxiety of getting it to work is what put me off. Glad to see your take on it. Btw saw the jayz2cents shoutout that was awesome. I was cheering in the comments section of that vid lol.

[Ghennesph]

I hope you get this working because it's a really cool idea.

[zbc_]

Dude! I saw the shoutout you got from Jayz2cents! That was so cool!

I love this homelab / gpu / compute content. I do this kind of stuff all the time in my off time!

I'm currently running a 3x HP DL380 G8 (240GB of RAM total) in a vmware vsphere cluster with freenas as the backend SAN (10TB storage).

[pauliusgruodis]

I find myself dreaming about accessing my desktop from tablet, or mobile or laptop, while in other rooms (or shitter, my apologies for being blunt) and this project is really awesome. I wish you luck!

[ramhee]

I did write a Fan control software for Dell Servers. Tell me if u want it😉