THE MACHINE

The lab is a rack in a spare room.

ArkNode runs on one Proxmox host carved into LXC containers - one GPU each, no VMs, no cloud. Every experiment on this site trained, backtested, or failed on the hardware below.

It is deliberately boring: consumer parts, ECC where it counts, a runbook for everything. When the hardware misbehaves, that becomes a post too.

TOPOLOGY
RYZEN 9 9950X · 128 GB DDR5gpu01RTX 5060 Ti16 GBgpu02RTX 5060 Ti16 GBgpu03RTX 5060 Ti16 GBgpu04RTX 5060 Ti16 GBRYZEN 9 9950X · 128 GB DDR5gpu01RTX 5060 Ti16 GBgpu02RTX 5060 Ti16 GBgpu03RTX 5060 Ti16 GBgpu04RTX 5060 Ti16 GB
HARDWARE
HOST CPURYZEN 9 9950XSYSTEM MEMORY128 GB DDR5
NODEGPUVRAM
gpu01RTX 5060 Ti16 GB
gpu02RTX 5060 Ti16 GB
gpu03RTX 5060 Ti16 GB
gpu04RTX 5060 Ti16 GB

Full runbooks - GPU passthrough, thermals, backup policy - live in the build logs. If it broke at 2 a.m., there’s a post about it.

READ THE BUILD LOGS →