[PLUG] Gaming graphics cards?

Bill Weiss pdxlinux at houdini.spum.us
Sat Feb 24 21:24:11 UTC 2018


First of all, in pedant mode, that's not open source :) It's free though.

You could look into a Steam Link, which is a set-top box that acts as a
remote console for a powerful machine running the Steam client and games
that sit under it. If the games you care about run in Steam, it's a good
way to separate the powerful (and possibly noisy) machine with the
graphics card from the person playing the games. It's happier with gigabit
ethernet than wifi, but you can always try wifi first.

The Steam client also has that functionality built in, so you could have a
lowend machine where the games are being played streaming from the powerful
server, if you have some computers sitting around to take the place of the
$35 (from Amazon) Link box.

https://nexus.vert.gg/gaming-on-amazon-s-ec2-83b178f47a34 has a decent
writeup of how this all works, just replace "EC2" with a VM on your local
cluster. At Puppet we did that during an ops hackday and made it work. We
were somewhat cheating with our 10G peering with Amazon, of course :)

-- 
Bill Weiss



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