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** you can get listings around this price point from https://diskprices.com/
* <s>$165.75 300 stickers (rsk)</s>[[User:Rsk]] bought some stickermule stickers on sale
** assuming we can't print these at The Source, stickers are good to both give out at gobblerfest (advertising!) and haphazardly place on personal computing equipment. 300 should be enough to last us a while -- we should use HokieTux with the main website URL underneath.
** https://deathbystickers.com/products/white-vinyl-stickers-builder?variant=41114416611371
* <s>$150 three AMD poweredges, 2x(r815 48c 128G), 1x(r715 12c 64GB) (rsk)</s>gone
** this seems like a wildly good deal. no caddies, but that can be dealt with, the bigger issue could be that they aren't tested past the BIOS. all the cores would be great if we wanted to start giving away VMs on a larger scale.
** kubernetes cluster, possibly?
** https://blacksburg.craigslist.org/sys/d/christiansburg-lot-of-dell-poweredge/7795184704.html
**https://www.ebay.com/itm/184760963431
* $80 drive caddies for the mystery proliant (rsk)
** we have this mystery server but no caddies nor 2.5in drives
** https://www.amazon.com/Caddy-DL380-BL460c-378343-002-500223-001/dp/B08SJ6Z9MS
* $152 8x500GB 2.5" for the proliant (rsk)** $19 each, used. we'll put it in raid1, probably, total size will end up being 2TB if we buy all eight.** <bs> API SERVICES https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007YJIGPQ</bs>these are SATA == Budget Requests == bundling items together into groups with decent purchasing justificationIf we set up a rig we can get google one and openai accounts so we can set up our own agents to do activites for the benefit of society. This might be against everything we stand for. * $20server upkeep/month rate limit Openai api parts** The comparable local model would be at minimum llama 3eight proliant caddies and two 2.5" drives is sub $100.2 11B i (about as good as chatgpt 4o on everything but logically stepping through problemsrsk) (logic can be improved with prompting techniques consisting of long prompts since context length doesn't matter anymore)just buy these. We need at least a 24gb of VRAM * miku** i (wersk)'ll just buy this too, it'd be using s kinda funny and about 22gb the same price as a half-rack of it a long prompt will push it overribs and pulled pork at Perry Place. * AI rig** === sent requests === * backup & storage solution (HDDs)** https://openaivtluug.org/users/~rsk/files/uploads/A-BackupStorage-solution-for-VTLUUG-services-and-members_12-Nov-2024_Budget.pdf * AI rig** https://vtluug.comorg/users/~rsk/apifiles/pricinguploads/A-computer-with-an-adequate-power-supply-for-AIcompute-task_23-Nov-2024_Budget.pdf === approved requests (!!) === * HDDs** purchased 11/23/24. 12TBs, because the prices for the other ones shot up, so it ended up being ~$720, ~$160 short of the budget allocation * AI rig. [[User:Rsk|i'll]] buy it after finals~
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