5 x R620’s with 2x 2695v2’s, 384 DDR3, 6TB SSD
2 x R820’s with 4x 4650v2’s, 704GB DDR3, 8TB SSD
1 x R720 with 2x 2695v2’s, 384 DDR3, 6TB SSD
1 x T620 with 2x 2695v2’s, 384 DDR3, 6TB SSD
Let's share our farming setup
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cause I can’t edit the old post. My old build is different since months i want to update it.
Changes:
- Server Rack at about 2meters high. I closed all holes except the bottom so air can only go thru all servers to top of the rack. I closed the most with silence-matts which have a sticky side.
- Nice cooling with a 70w turbo fan which sucks the air from the roof of the rack. The bottom of the rack is open. The air goes out of the basement window - I had to add a silencer after the fan cause noise from the servers went out of the air pipe and so to the neighbors…
- I made 2 extra circuits with 4x 2,5mm diameter cables from my flat down to the basement so it can be 4x3600watts
2x cat7 cables also from my flat down to the basement - A PXE Server
Server upgrades:
Dell Servers each with 4x E7-8867L (4x10cores @2,13ghz) so each server has 80cores
>640GB RAM each server
8TB SSD each server
together 24TB HDD
Everything is running on Grid 3.0 very well.
Future plans:
Sell each server and change it to HPE gen8
Now im selling one of my Dells located in Austria/Vienna. Ask if you have interests.
And now the photos I wanted to share since months xD
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It has been a long while since I have updated the community on this project and boy are there updates to be given. As I’ve always said the “intent” of this project entirely surrounds the idea of building a decentralized “backbone” for the grid with the primary functions of providing bandwidth and Ip addresses to support the growth and utilization of the US network based on belief in the technology offering a service that is required by the world and is not a for profit project. As such all TFT farmed from this project is untouched or used for deployments. As the project grows TFT may be used to invest in nodes, infrastructure or utilities cost but at this time I believe it is more beneficial to leave it where it is and my intent is for the project to operate in a non-profit capacity to allow it to provide the greatest overall good.
This is basically going to be a walkthrough of how I have, mostly, successfully deployed a 5 gigabit fiber line across 6 nodes with a combined 120 Threads, 896gb of ram and 13tbs of ssd. The nodes serve a /25 Public ip block providing 128 public ip addresses. Currently there are gateway nodes operational on Main net, Test net and Dev net with redundant nodes operating on both main and test nets.
The heart of this project is my internet connection with a fiber line providing a symmetrical 5 gigabit fiber connection and 128 IP addresses. From what I understand having this available in a home setting is extremely rare, In fact in research it appears my ISP has only deployed this to 18 cities in the U.S. with my area being one of the first online. I wont go into cost specifics but its very affordable as well.
Even just this one connection has provided consistent 99% uptime in practice so far it has truly been a great investment.
Unfortunately my ISP does require me to use their hardware and it is causing some issues with scaling but well get into that later.
For the Hardware in use I have a true PUG team of hardware that I have been able to affordably source and deploy allowing me to get this proof-of-concept deployment up and running very well.
My “gateway”: I am using the ISP required Nokia BGW-320, while this a surprisingly powerful home gateway its definitely falling short of its needs in its current roles, but unfortunately I have yet to be able to find another solution. I’m likely going to have to move to business connection to fix this problem.
My switch : Is an HPE Flexfabric 5700 JG894A Proving 12 SFP+( 4 SFP+/ 2x QSFP±> 4x SFP+) connections and 48 gigabit base-T connections
My Nodes Consist of:
-Main Net-
2914- HPE DL180 G9 W/ 32 threads/256GB Ram/2.5TB of SSD
-2x 1 Gigabit link
3049- HPE DL360P G8 W/ 32 threads/256GB Ram/3.5TB of SSD
-2x 10 gigabit links
-Test Net-
219- HPE DL360P G8 W/ 32 Threads/256GB Ram/3.5TB of SSD
-2x 10 gigabit links
220- Supermicro white box W/ 8 Threads/32 gb of ram/ 2 TB of SSD
1x- gigE/1x 10gigE(public)
-Dev Net-
45- Dell R610 W/ 12 Threads/ 64GB of Ram/ 1 TB SSD
-2x 1 Gigabit link
-Not Online-
Supermicro White box W/ 4 Threads/ 32GB of Ram/ 1 TB of SSD (currently running local resources to be grid eventually)
1x- gigE/1x 10gigE(public)
Some problems I have left to address,
-I’m eventually going to have to buy a modern HPE switch when the farm earns enough for it, the 5gbaset gateway and the switch from before that was a thing are definitely not playing together perfectly but that’s not something I can self fund.
-need more power to the office
-have a planned expansion to a 200amp service panel with additional circuits on separate phases 
-need a true battery backup solution, currently I have ups that will deaden any brown power but they will not be sufficient to keep things online in an outage, luckily that’s been less than a once per 6 month occurrence here over the last 3 years and I do have generator backup for a short term solution.
-planned deployment of a 3KW powerwall style battery system that will eventually be supported by solar and generator.
On to the cool stuff, Pictures
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First built rig, using mostly used parts
Dell 7920 Workstation
112 vcore: 2x Xeon 8173M
11TB NVME
768GB Ram: 12x64GB 2666mhz DDR4 sticks
Room for a GPU when the time comes 
Very quiet which is key.
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Wow that’s sexy your one node is 80% of my 6 node farm by itself
D@mn, that’s like a 12k+ machine, isn’t it
This guy just pops in here for the first time with that machine like its no big deal!
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Haha, thanks! I would have preferred the rack route (like yours!) but unfortunately space and noise did not permit.
I’m working on building a shared hosting space that would allow my farm to function as a dc for other farmers nodes currently. Once things are more lined out you could throw a whole rack here for a portion of the tft!
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Spoken like a true member of @FLnelson’s ThreeFold fArmy! In all seriousness, love to see the progress on your setup and I salute your efforts (with the only suitable emoji this platform offers) 
With Nelson building nodes and me building networks, the nets future is looking pretty good
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Hi Farmers, here is my newest Node:
Supermicro 827-14
4x blade server X8DTT-H
Each blade have:
2x Xeon 5660 CPU
12 X 16GB 12800R RAM
3 X 1Tb SSD
Each blade makes
1549 TFT/ month
Total 6200 TFT/month.
Setup is even easier than Dell servers.
- Bios update
- turn fans into Energy Saver mode
- turn sata controller into ahci
- format SSD
- boot Zero-OS
Idle 477 Watts
It’s a bit noisy, about 3 Dell r620 noisy
It has 4 power buttons to controll the blades individually, you will need to connect min 4 ethernet cables to it.
SSD just slides into even without a caddy.
Super easy to setup.
Happy Farming!
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Cool. What do you mean by " you will need to connect min 4 ethernet cables to it."?
And, fo these machines support Secure boot?
It means that each blade need 1 ethernet cable, 2 if you want remote management.
Secure boot, I will have a look.
hey! i just saw you have the servers in your living room? how to you handle the noisy servers with your ears? xD mine are soo loud i cant even hear a person screaming next to me xD its like an airplane 
Just node 49 in Devnet is out there, the main servers are in the office with the multi gig switch that’s as loud as a server lol
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Hi Farmers,
This is the first month that I have been running my 3 farms at their optimal capacities, except for HDD space. So, I would like to add them here to share with you my setup and estimated cost/earnings.
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Self build desktop with AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, 32 threads, 128GB ram, 2TB SSD and 1TB HDD
With no load, power consumption was 60W, earning 1040TFT/month -
HP DL380P G8 with dual E5-2690, 32 threads, 256GB ram, 3.84TB SSD and about 7TB HDD
With no load, power consumption was about 135W, earnings 2120TFT/month -
Cisco C240M3 with dual E5-2680 V2, 40 threads, 320GB ram, 4.32TB SSD and about 8TB HDD
No power consumption measured, earnings 2640TFT/month -
HP DL580P G8 with 4x E7-4880 V2, 120 threads. But this is on hold. Currently no budget yet to get the required 960GB ram and SSD’s. Estimated earnings could be 8540TFT/month. Excited about getting this one on the grid!
Have a great day!
Jefke
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#4 is a biggie! Good news is DDR3 prices are coming down.
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Hi,
I have an old Acer Veriton M4620G Desktop as a node.
- 12Gb Memory and a SSD of 340Gb.
- Intel® Core™ i5 i5-3470 3.2 GHz
- 340Gb SSD
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