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Chris Paquin
@cpaquin.bsky.social
· Mar 20
Resetting a Lost BMC Password with ipmitool
I recently got my hands on a couple of gigabyte servers. These machines came preinstalled with Ubuntu 20.04. Credentials for a OS local user account were on a sticker on the machines. However there was no indication of what the BMC credentials were. According to this document, there should be default credentials that we can … <a href="" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>
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Chris Paquin
@cpaquin.bsky.social
· Mar 4
Simple RAG with Ollama, OpenWebUI, and VectorDB on Ubuntu 22.04
Prerequisites I have already installed Nvidia proprietary drivers and the Nvidia Cuda Toolkit. I documented the install of the Cuda toolkit in an older post which can be found here. Since I have Nvidia GPUs in my host system, and I intend to run some services in containers, I want to make sure that I … <a href="" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>
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Chris Paquin
@cpaquin.bsky.social
· Feb 21
Drivers and CUDA Toolkit Setup for Nvidia on Fedora 40
First determine what driver is installed. Below we can see that we are running the “nouveau” driver and not the Nvidia proprietary driver. Add rpm fusion repos. Dnf update. Install kernel-devel which provides kernel headers and makefiles required to build kernel modules. Install akmod-nividia, which checks if there are any missing kernel mods at boot … <a href="" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>
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Chris Paquin
@cpaquin.bsky.social
· Feb 18
Step-by-Step Nvidia CUDA Toolkit Installation Guide: Ubuntu 24.04
The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit is essential for developing GPU-accelerated applications and includes various tools. Users must uninstall older versions from Ubuntu before installing the latest toolkit from NVIDIA’s website for better performance and compatibility. The summary highlights differences between installation methods regarding version availability, ease, and update management.
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Chris Paquin
@cpaquin.bsky.social
· Feb 18
Step-by-Step Nvidia CUDA Toolkit Installation Guide: Ubuntu 22.04
“The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit is a software development kit that helps users create GPU-accelerated applications. It includes libraries, compilers, debuggers, and optimization tools”. Since we have an Nvidia GPU we will install it as shown below. Note: If you installed the nvidia-cuda-toolkit from default ubuntu noble repo, uninstall it first as that version is probably too old. … <a href="" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>
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Chris Paquin
@cpaquin.bsky.social
· Feb 17
Getting Started with RamaLama: Streamlining AI Deployment with OCI Containers
Introduction to RamaLama RamaLama is an open-source project developed to simplify AI model deployment and management using OCI (Open Container Initiative) containers. Ramalama enables seamless execution of AI workloads across different hardware configurations, supporting both GPU-accelerated and CPU-based environments. By leveraging container engines like Podman and Docker, RamaLama includes all necessary dependencies, eliminating complex installation … <a href="" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>
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