SEPTEMBER 2026
INFRASTRUCTURE
The website goes live
Created a Debian virtual machine on Hyper-V, installed Cockpit and Nginx, and deployed the first Astro version of AI Is Here.
BUILD JOURNAL
Progress, problems, and discoveries.
A running record of the decisions, experiments, setbacks, and milestones involved in building the lab.
SEPTEMBER 2026
HARDWARE
The R720 becomes the foundation
Established the Dell PowerEdge R720 as the primary platform for the private AI lab, with 128 GB of memory available for compute, virtualization, and services.
UPCOMING
GPU INSTALLATION
Installing the Tesla P100
Validate the power cable, install the accelerator, confirm GPU detection, and document the thermal and power requirements.
UPCOMING
AI SOFTWARE
First local inference run
Install the software stack and run the first practical local language model on the lab hardware.