Snowy

The second-most powerful machine in the lab, after unicron. Duke and ASM are little babies compared to this bad boy.

Technical specifications

Field	Value
Server Type	It's a desktop (a documentation writer's worst nightmare)
CPU	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core Processor
RAM	64 GB
GPU	2x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Networking	Ethernet must be connected to the topmost Ethernet port
Hard Disks	1TB SSD
OS	Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS

History

Snowy was a purchase order as part of Arya Kumar's 2019 Senior Research project. He went through a bunch of different names as the case kept getting delayed in the mail, eventually arriving 3 months late.

Snowy is currently sitting on the floor by the Sun and HPC racks. Its ethernet cable comes from the Sun Rack and power is a mess.

Trivia

• Snowy was supposed to have 4x NVIDIA RTX 2080, but there wasn't enough room in the case; the fans on the bottom take up too much space.

• After completing the build, someone posted a picture of it to https://old.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace. It quickly amassed 12.3k upvotes.

• Snowy originally had three RTX 2080s. The middle one got too hot sometimes and thermal throttled. It ultimately caught fire in 2021. Now there are only two RTX 2080s.

• Nearly everything in the case has RGB LEDs on it, except for the CPU.

• The Cluster lead wanted the Ethernet port information to be put here.