Campus Station

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Campus Compute Station

Campus Compute Station (also referred to as "Campus Station" or just "CS") provide ULTRA RELIABLE compute power to your Own AI Teams.

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Campus Station Hardware

Whether buying new or repurposing old computers, the following are the minimum hardware specifications for a Campus Station:

• Processor: 64-bit
• Encryption: Hardware
• Memory: 6 GBytes DDR4
• Disk: 64 GBytes
• Ethernet: 1Gbps
• USB: 2 x USB 3.0
• WiFi: 802.11n and 802.11ac
• Bluetooth: 4.2

Note only x86-64 hardware is supported at the moment but support for ARM64 is planned.

PCIe Slots

To provide GPU resources to your Own AI Teams, you need to have a machine that has at least 2 PCIe x4 slots.

Most computers do not have 4 PCIe x16 slots like the Dell Precision Tower used in our example:

Dell Precision Tower 7910

AI Workloads This machine has four PCIe Gen3 x16 slots connecting directly to two CPUs, resulting in very high performance for up to four GPU cards. [cpu2] It is rare to find motherboards that expose ALL four PCIe x16 channels on the CPUs (shown above) to external GPUs via four onboard PCIe x16 slots (shown below). [4_GPUs] The prices of GPUs with large amounts of VRAM are very expensive, with the above four PCIe x16 slots we can combine: 4 cheaper GPUs to create 1 virtual GPU with 4…

For the first AI Team Station in each region, we can provide a GPU expansion kit to you for free. So you can plugin up to 4 GPUs into a single PCIe x16 slot in your computer.

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Campus Station Software

Campus Station runs Disposable Nodes in both LXC and KVM containers, the currently supported operating systems are:

• Proxmox

Support for the following operating systems is being tested:

• Ubuntu with LXD
• IncusOS with Incus