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Brandon Schneider 8356558ea7 wiki: add Q-Fox primary development machine specifications
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X (6C/12T, AVX-512), 31GiB DDR5, 1.8TB NVMe,
Radeon iGPU, CachyOS 7.0.3. Mapped 8 capabilities to stack use.
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title: Q-Fox (Primary Development Machine)
tags: infrastructure hardware workstation
created: 20260507
modified: 20260507
# Q-Fox — Primary Development Machine
## Overview
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **Hostname** | Q-Fox |
| **Role** | Primary development, compilation, simulation, and orchestration host |
| **OS** | CachyOS Linux (Arch-based) |
| **Kernel** | 7.0.3-1-cachyos |
| **Architecture** | x86_64 |
---
## CPU
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **Model** | AMD Ryzen 5 9600X (Granite Ridge) |
| **Cores** | 6 physical / 12 logical (SMT) |
| **Base Clock** | 628 MHz (min) |
| **Boost Clock** | 5,486 MHz (max) |
| **L1d Cache** | 288 KiB (6 × 48 KiB) |
| **L1i Cache** | 192 KiB (6 × 32 KiB) |
| **L2 Cache** | 6 MiB (6 × 1 MiB) |
| **L3 Cache** | 32 MiB (unified) |
| **ISA Extensions** | AVX-512 (F, DQ, IFMA, CD, BW, VL, BF16, VBMI, VBMI2, VNNI, BITALG, VPOPCNTDQ, VP2INTERSECT), AVX2, AVX-VNNI, SHA-NI, AES |
| **Virtualization** | AMD-V |
| **TDP** | 65W (nominal) |
---
## Memory
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **Total** | 31.1 GiB (DDR5) |
| **Type** | DDR5 (AM5 platform) |
| **Swap** | 30.4 GiB (zram) |
---
## Storage
| Device | Size | Type | Model |
|--------|------|------|-------|
| `/dev/nvme0n1` | 1.8 TB | NVMe PCIe 4.0 | MSI M480 PRO 2TB |
| Partition | Size | Usage |
|-----------|------|-------|
| `/dev/nvme0n1p2` (/) | 1.9 TB | 98% used (45G free) |
---
## GPU
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **Model** | AMD Radeon Graphics (Granite Ridge iGPU) |
| **Architecture** | RDNA 2 (integrated) |
| **VRAM** | Shared system memory |
| **PCI ID** | `12:00.0 VGA compatible controller: AMD/ATI Granite Ridge [Radeon Graphics] (rev c6)` |
---
## Networking
| Interface | Type | Address |
|-----------|------|---------|
| `enp14s0` | Ethernet (Realtek) | IPv6 only |
| `wlan0` | WiFi | 192.168.1.118/24 |
| `tailscale0` | Tailscale VPN | Mesh overlay |
---
## Research Stack Relevance
| Capability | Stack Use |
|-----------|-----------|
| AVX-512 (full suite) | Q16.16 fixed-point vectorization, PIST encode/decode, FAMM delay computation |
| 12 threads | 11-agent swarm + 1 orchestrator thread |
| 32 MiB L3 cache | Fits full topological device plan in cache-resident state |
| 31 GiB RAM | Virtual FPGA cluster (5× Tang Nano 9K) fits in memory |
| NVMe 4.0 | Fast Lean 4 lake builds, Verilator simulation traces |
| AVX-512 BF16 | bf4prover bfloat16 proof search acceleration |
| SHA-NI / AES | Receipt hashing, invariant witness compression |
| AMD-V | Nested virtualization for sandboxed prover execution |
---
## Notes
- 98% disk usage — cleanup recommended before large builds
- No discrete GPU — all compute on CPU (sufficient for current stack)
- CachyOS provides optimized kernel with BORE scheduler and LTO builds
- zram swap at 30.4 GiB matches physical RAM (1:1 ratio)