Comment by moondev
1 day ago
Get a DGX spark.
Ships with aarch64 Ubuntu 24.04.
Tons of cores and RAM.
Very quiet and small
UEFI bootloader - I installed Ubuntu 25.10 and ESXi arm edition just by booting the ISO
usb-c power input (kinda cool)
Insane connectx 200GbE RoCE networking
10GbE Ethernet
Oh and an nvidia gpu with cuda and access to 128GB of unified memory
It would be perfect if it had some kind of BMC or IPMI/redfish and an exposed PCIE slot. But this thing is an awesome arm64 workstation no doubt.
May try to install to a USB drive and hang another gpu off the nvme port just to see what happens
And, any other options or recommendations if I don't need the huge GPU?
Seems like the middle ground between SBCs and huge servers is a bit underserved in ARM...
This might sound silly question, but those of you who have digits/spark machine, has anyone run Fedora on it? I kind of ran away from Ubuntu back to Fedora because reasons. Bonus question, far-fetched, steam and games with FEX?
Steam gaming with FEX is possible on the DGX Spark. The GPU is approximately a mobile 5070 with much less memory bandwidth. The CPU cores are relatively weak, especially after the instruction set translation overhead. There's a lot of stuff that's playable, but the performance is laughably bad for a $4000 machine.
Fedora boots ootb
Oh that's a good shout. A friend did get one of these so I'll go take a look at it and see what it's like.
It seems incredible but uhm, way out of my mitteleuropaishe budget
Is it easy to buy a DGX Spark?
My microcenter has nvidia OEM flavor in stock. There are also flavors from all the other OEMs that differ slightly on cooling but mainly on chassis design.