Since Wirken.AI supports open weights, the question comes up often how big can it go. Well, I lived and worked through the early 1990s of DEC Storageworks RAID, as pioneered in the early 1980s as disk shadowing on the HSC50/HSC70, and my mind immediately went to repeating the past.

Cheap datacenter GPUs are being sold used in volume. Pooling them for local inference is well documented, so we just need to think about the redundancy. This is a build with a mirror and a spare, the way we built disk shelves in the old days.

Introducing the Redundant Array of Inexpensive Videocards (RAIV).

AI dance all day
AI dance all night, all weights
local, all is right

Parts

Who knows where prices will go, but here we are in September 2026. The MI50 figure is Pillitteri’s August survey; the board and CPU combo is the going rate from online markets.

Qty	Item	Unit	Line	Note
7	AMD Instinct MI50 32GB, used	€220	€1,540	6 in two mirrored groups of 3, plus 1 spare. Verify 32GB on each.
1	Supermicro H12SSL-i + EPYC 7302, used	€900	€900	5 x16 + 2 x8 PCIe 4.0 slots. Any 7002-series EPYC is fine.
4	16GB DDR4-3200 ECC RDIMM, used	€30	€120	64GB. More only if you offload to CPU.
1	2TB NVMe	€120	€120	Model storage.
2	1,200W ATX PSU, 80+ Gold	€180	€360	Each card needs two 8-pin. Split cards across supplies. Add2PSU adapter to sync.
7	PCIe 4.0 x16 riser cable, 30cm	€35	€245	Double-width cards will not sit in adjacent slots. Risers space them out.
7	MI50 fan shroud + 40mm server fan	€15	€105	3D-printed shrouds are on Printables; Delta or Sunon fans.
1	Open GPU frame, 8 slot	€60	€60	Mining frame. A 4U case works if you have the rack depth.
1	Fan controller, PWM, 8 channel	€25	€25	Server fans at full speed are unpleasant.
1	CPU cooler, SP3	€50	€50
	Total		ca. €3,530	96GB usable per mirror, 192GB across both, 32GB spare.

For comparison, one DGX Spark is 128GB for about $4,000. Two RTX PRO 6000 cards are 192GB for around $17,000.

Quality Test Purchase

Before you get a pack, try getting one card and testing it. Run rocm-smi –showmeminfo vram and confirm 32GB. Load a model that fills it and run for an hour. It’s a problem in the market that 16GB cards are listed as 32GB with modified firmware. When one passes, then you can feel better about getting six more from the same seller.

Board Setup

BIOS: enable Above 4G Decoding and Resizable BAR. Without them the cards do not enumerate; one builder replaced a motherboard over this. Give each card an x16 or x8 slot. A card on a one-lane riser holds weights but cannot process a prompt at usable speed.

Given this isn’t fancy cooling, limit each card to about 150W with rocm-smi –setpoweroverdrive. Generation speed is limited by memory bandwidth, not compute, so this limit will affect little.

Software

Ubuntu 24.04. Do not install the ROCm SDK, since AMD in their vendor wisdom doesn’t support it; the ROCm 7.0 changelog reads painfully “Removed support for AMD Instinct MI50 and MI60.” Use one of the gfx906 llama.cpp containers that bundle the ROCm 7.2 runtime with kernels built for the card. The host needs the amdgpu driver and your user in the video group. The Vulkan build of llama.cpp is the fallback. Recent Ollama releases omit the gfx906 files; skip it.

Mirror and Spare

One model across all seven cards is a stripe. If a card fails, the process exits, and the model no longer fits. Ruh roh.

Split into two groups of three. Run two llama-server processes, one per group, each with its own copy of the model, on two ports. A 100B-class model at four-bit fits in 96GB with room for context. Put nginx or Caddy in front with a health check on /health and failover between backends.

The seventh card stays installed, powered, and idle. When a card in group A fails, the proxy serves from B. Move the spare into A’s group, restart A. One in-flight conversation is lost. Dance, dance, dance.

Test

Load both groups. Start a long generation on A. Pull the power lead on one of A’s cards. Time until the proxy serves from B. Restart A with the spare and time the reload. Record both.

Run all seven cards at full load for an hour and monitor the host: CPU temperature, VRM temperature, PCIe errors in dmesg.

Fun fact, in 1997 I built a fat Sun workstation to run a hospital’s massive StorageWorks shelf (fronting a huge robot arm that fed tapes from a room full of them) and the whole thing shut down under load from the Sparc (CPU) overheating, not from the disks. Ah, the good old days.

I found no published failover timings for a build like this, in any language. Let’s do this and publish some. Share and share alike.

Here is another banger investigation by marcant of the German Nazi (AfD) Party, which is basically just letting them expose themselves as the hate platform.

For those who don’t speak German:

Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism

20:02

That the Nazis murdered very many Jews, I wouldn’t say that.

20:26 to 20:35, marcant tells them “over six million”

No, that’s not true. It was two million.

20:41, marcant asks for his source

The news. But not the lying press.

Lying press is a Nazi slogan.

21:04

Two million, maximum.

21:20

We’re living in today’s time now, not in the Jew-time.

Jew-time for the AfD was when?

21:24

What was done to people during Corona, that’s history, from then until now.

41:55 to 42:07, asked “Did the Holocaust happen?”

Are you trying to fuck with me? Dude, what’s wrong with you? Are you a Jew or what?

Are you a Jew, as a reaction? Welcome to the AfD.

Nazi Era and Colonial Apologia

2:43 to 2:54, asked what Germany did in Africa under the Kaiser

Germany didn’t commit any invasion.

3:02 to 3:12

I stand by that history. From 1871 until today.

3:21 to 3:37, asked about 1933 to 1945, then why it should be rejected

Not good. I don’t reject it. It’s history. It’s German history. I don’t entirely reject [1933 to 1945]. I wouldn’t call it a negative history.

There it is. The AfD saying out loud that time under Hitler wasn’t negative.

3:45 to 4:20, asked what was positive about it, then who changed Hitler. He never says the name.

The transformation of that one by the SPD. Probably the mayor of Vienna, who had great influence on him. Dr. Karl Lueger. I can only recommend it. Clears a lot up.

29:48 to 30:02

Who dropped the bombs on Dresden? Not the Germans. You need to engage with history and go into detail.

More like who caused Dresden to be bombed. The answer is Hitler.

Slurs

4:20 to 4:29, on the Greens

That filthy scum.

33:14 to 33:22

The Left are criminals. They’ve proven it. Wall shooters and all. And you’ve got such “Kanake” in there with you.

German sailors and colonial administrators in the Pacific adopted “Kanake” (Polynesian word for human) in the 19th century to mean (tan skinned) laborers from islands, which by the 1970s became a racist insult to mean “non-white” laborers being imported to rebuild Germany (Turkish, Arab, Middle Eastern, or southern European).

Violence Against Children

12:14 to 12:27, on AfD MEP Arno Bausemer, alleged to have hit a 14-year-old in the head with a baseball bat in Stendal, now under LKA investigation. Asked if that was disproportionate.

The children need to know what they’re allowed and not allowed to do. I don’t see it that way. You know what my grandma always said? When children don’t know what to do, they’re like a plant. They have to be tied up so they grow straight.

Children have to be tied up to prevent them learning. Welcome to the AfD.

Fascism Inversion

8:23

When CDU, SPD, Left and Greens join together, that’s fascism.

Joining together to collaborate is the literal opposite of a uni-party fascist system.

9:44 to 9:52, asked why Ukraine is fascist

Our government supports Hitler-fascists in Ukraine who tattoo swastikas on themselves.

Have they not noticed Twitter is now branded as a swastika?

10:17

Left-fascist, rainbow-fascist, and worst of all the finance-fascists. That’s the CDU.

Finance fascists? The AfD targets the CDU tactically, to out-extreme the extremists.

45:33 to 45:42, on Merz

BlackRock-infested, the whole lobby behind him.

Russia

39:38 to 39:43, asked who attacked whom

Putin had his justification.

37:49, evidence that Ukraine is safe now for deportations

I know a Ukrainian woman in Kyiv who parties every weekend.

39:18 to 39:28, on Zelensky requesting aid

I’d rather die than be a beggar like him for money.

Deportation

Speaker is 13 years old, blurred in the video.

25:47 to 25:55

You shouldn’t bring all the foreigners into the country, or war refugees. Because most foreigners just cause trouble here.

48:16 to 48:37

The ones who just come here, only cause trouble, rape women, should be deported, or not let in in the first place.

48:53 to 49:20, asked whether his Ukrainian classmate should be deported even if that means being killed by a missile

Yeah, really. Sure, it’s not nice for him to be killed, but he offers our country nothing.

Threats, Harassment, Smears

5:20 to 5:28, after marcant says he was bullied for years at school

I bet they tied a sausage around your neck at school so anyone would play with you.

14:34 to 15:17

Get lost. When I see you, you have to get aggressive. You’re an idiot. You’re nuts. Get lost. With us you’ve got no chance.

50:58 to 51:02, rival streamer on camera, after marcant spoke with the 13-year-old

I just want to document that marcant has a weakness for interviewing little children.

54:27 to 54:33

Come here, say it to my face. If you dare.

Paramount ran its PR engine into the trade press on Friday to accuse Mark Ruffalo of “antisemitic tropes”.

Why?

Ruffalo had shared a video of Oracle executive Safra Catz describing technology her company supplied to the Israeli military. He quoted her own words about her own employer. Think about that. Her words, her employer, repeated. And somehow the person repeating her words is the bad guy?

Paramount defense of a $110 billion merger, when measured on my highly accurate disinformation sensor gets the following result.

You don’t have to be Jewish to check what either party said against the traditions of Judaism. The Ellisons’ conduct is the obvious immoral failure here. Allow me to explain, as I think you will soon see Ellison doesn’t hold a candle.

Start with the verse that sets the category. Ezekiel 18:20: the person who sins bears the sin. Halakha judges deeds. It refuses inherited guilt and collective guilt alike. That refusal shields every Jew from association with Oracle’s contracts, and it shields Ruffalo from the claim that scrutinizing those contracts touches Jews at all. Paramount’s statement performs the exact awful conflation that it alleges shouldn’t happen. It treats one corporation’s military business as coextensive with Jewish identity, so that criticism of the business becomes prejudice against the people. Nope.

Now look at the conduct.

Larry Ellison stood before an Oracle analyst meeting in September 2024 and described the product:

Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.

The Talmud names this.

First, Hezek re’iyah, damage by seeing, treats surveillance as a tort in itself. Bava Batra prohibits even a window overlooking a neighbor’s courtyard before anyone acts on what is seen. Rabbenu Gershom banned reading another’s letters a thousand years before packet inspection. And the tradition holds that conduct produced by watchers carries zero moral weight.

Yochanan ben Zakkai’s deathbed blessing in Berachot 28b was that his students fear Heaven as much as they fear flesh and blood, because people transgress when they believe no human sees them. Ellison proposes to perfect the fear of flesh and blood. His system abolishes the moral act while claiming to manufacture it. That’s a big nope, again.

Catz supplied the second count.

Avodah Zarah 15b forbids selling weapons or instruments of harm where misuse is foreseeable, and Rambam extends the rule to anything that endangers. The prohibition presumes the seller investigates the end use.

Catz told an Israeli-American Council summit that Oracle built “really profoundly scary technology” for the military effort, including things she said she could not discuss. Secrecy about end use inverts the halakhic duty. Boasting that the use is unspeakable concedes the violation.

Nope, nope, and nope.

Third count: shochad. Exodus 23:8 warns that a bribe blinds the clear-sighted. Ellison gave Friends of the IDF the largest single gift in its history. In 2021, while a witness in Netanyahu’s corruption trial, Haaretz reported he offered the defendant a seat on Oracle’s board. A paid position, extended to an indicted head of government, by a witness in his own case. The bribery texts legislate this exact scenario, and the rabbis extended them to shochad devarim, influence through favors, because influence launders itself.

I’m gonna need a bigger nope machine.

Fourth: Isaiah 5:8. Woe to those who join house to house and field to field until room runs out. The prophet was describing market cornering. This merger would fuse two of the largest studios while twelve state attorneys general sue to block it, atop an Oracle stake in TikTok and family direction of CBS News. Information is the field being joined.

Which leaves the accusation itself. Ready? Do I even need to explain?

Motzi shem ra, spreading a false damaging name, ranks in the tradition as graver than true gossip. Paramount named its trope in the statement zero times, quoted zero sentences, identified zero mechanisms.

That’s a huge tell. Ellison runs a database that labels things without any of the data to back it up. Get it? An empty database, spreading accusations, for a fee.

An accusation that specifies nothing can be refuted by nothing, and its real audience is every other actor weighing public opposition to the merger. Deploying the memory of Jewish persecution as armor for a corporate transaction is chillul Hashem, and it leaves every genuine report of antisemitism weaker than it found it.

Ellison is undermining Jews on so many levels you have to wonder why?

Leviticus 19:17 commands rebuke. Hocheach tochiach et amitecha: you shall surely rebuke your fellow.

Ruffalo performed the mitzvah.

Paramount has attacked the Jews, repeatedly, and deployed big PR machines to label themselves as the hero.