Video on making a desktop supercomputer

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David Anderson Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Send message Joined: 13 Feb 99 Posts: 34 Credit: 381,044 RAC: 0	Message 975569 - Posted: 3 Mar 2010, 20:58:52 UTC
	Check out a Youtube video about making a multi-GPU desktop supercomputer.
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Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 360,022 RAC: 180	Message 975586 - Posted: 3 Mar 2010, 22:14:42 UTC - in response to Message 975569.
	Check out a Youtube video about making a multi-GPU desktop supercomputer. That´s a high-end kitchen PC!!! Just wondering what its RAC might be. ____________
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arkayn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 3082 Credit: 40,003,938 RAC: 65,285	Message 975618 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 2:06:39 UTC
	He must just be ramping it up or is not running optimized apps on that machine as I do not see him in the top 100. ____________
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Santiago Rasse Ortega Send message Joined: 4 Dec 99 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,107,565 RAC: 123	Message 975650 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 5:25:11 UTC
	I am living in China, and here Youtube is a mortal sin... forbidden and controlled. Would it be possible to put that video in another web site for to wacth it... or, maybe for to download it. Thanks a lot ____________
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Robert Hessland Send message Joined: 24 Nov 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 171,395 RAC: 0	Message 975680 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 8:51:15 UTC
	@arkyayn I dont know why its not on the top computer and to be honest, I dont care. ;) I didnt build that thing to be the best on the list, I just build it to see whats the maximum I can have as a "personal supercomputer" without having a Rack in my livingroom. @Dirk Villarreal Wittich I posted a answer on youtube @Santiago Rasse Ortega If you have skype just send me orskyename r add meand I will send it to you. My Skypename is: avtechgroup
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BakCompat Send message Joined: 30 Jun 00 Posts: 7 Credit: 4,149,969 RAC: 3,392	Message 975718 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 17:02:28 UTC - in response to Message 975680.
	that is excellent! Congratultions on building such a fine computer. I hope you get to use it for some fun stuff, and not just work related applications.... :)
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hiamps Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,490,908 RAC: 36,493	Message 975738 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 18:47:49 UTC - in response to Message 975680.
	@arkyayn I dont know why its not on the top computer and to be honest, I dont care. ;) I didnt build that thing to be the best on the list, I just build it to see whats the maximum I can have as a "personal supercomputer" without having a Rack in my livingroom. @Dirk Villarreal Wittich I posted a answer on youtube @Santiago Rasse Ortega If you have skype just send me orskyename r add meand I will send it to you. My Skypename is: avtechgroup That is one sweet machine, now I really need to hit the Lottery....LOL Thanks for sharing it. ____________ Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound!
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hiamps Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,490,908 RAC: 36,493	Message 975739 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 18:49:21 UTC - in response to Message 975569.
	Check out a Youtube video about making a multi-GPU desktop supercomputer. I bet that machine can confuse Boinc.... ____________ Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound!
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[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6566 Credit: 50,672,447 RAC: 19,971	Message 975748 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 19:36:52 UTC - in response to Message 975569. Last modified: 4 Mar 2010, 19:46:56 UTC
	Check out a Youtube video about making a multi-GPU desktop supercomputer. I couldn't see the whole video. My DSL light is too slowly for DL all. I as an supercomputer owner/user are annoyed about. The SETI@home servers have too much unplanned server outages for continuously crunching. My GPU cruncher (over months top_host_#2) with AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE and 4x OCed GTX260-216 had a RAC of ~ 65,000 and used ~ 700 W out of the wall plug. ~ 600 'normal' AR WUs / day. (< 10 min. / GPU) If only 'shorties' then x4 ! (~ 2:15 min. / GPU) It was sad to see the GPU cruncher ~ 1/4 of the uptime idle. Every day I needed to look a few times if the UL/DL/report/request was well. After one year continuously on - I switched off, ~ 250 W for only idle is too much. And BOINC isn't designed for this kind of power. ____________ [Optimized project applications, for to increase your PC performance (double RAC)!][Overview of abbreviations, which are used often in forum and their meaning.] ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
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Fred W Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0	Message 975761 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 20:58:37 UTC - in response to Message 975748.
	And BOINC isn't designed for this kind of power. BOINC certainly is designed for this kind of power. It's S@H alone that cannot support it. I know that your interest is only in SETI but your machine could be fully utilised if you used the facilities available within BOINC. F. ____________
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hiamps Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,490,908 RAC: 36,493	Message 975778 - Posted: 4 Mar 2010, 22:51:51 UTC - in response to Message 975761.
	And BOINC isn't designed for this kind of power. BOINC certainly is designed for this kind of power. It's S@H alone that cannot support it. I know that your interest is only in SETI but your machine could be fully utilised if you used the facilities available within BOINC. F. But as confused as Boinc gets with only seti, I can only imagine what would happen if I had to download other projects also. Sometimes during downloads my screen can't even keep up with my 2 finger typing. I only have a 4 day cache. ____________ Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound!
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Robert Hessland Send message Joined: 24 Nov 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 171,395 RAC: 0	Message 975880 - Posted: 5 Mar 2010, 7:30:39 UTC
	Some answers to the questions regarding the computer. I got alot of questions regarding the computer and if someone really need that amount of power. The answer is really simple. If you just use it as your homecomputer... NO. Noone really need that thing, especially at home. At the End its a pure Workstation and the whole Hardware was designed for it. It really is a nice toy and I build it to see what´s the maximum possible you can build as a high end computer. When the other 24GB RAM and the 480GTX come I will put it down in the basement, install it in the rack and will use it as a VMware ESX Server. The Tesla´s will come out and thats it. Its really a nice machine but if you dont realy use it and bring it on the maximum its just a verry expensive toy. And it really is. With the Upgrade to 48 Gigs RAM and another 1TB Colossus it will probably cost around 22.000€. Way too much just for a daily used Computer for Office, Internet and Games sometimes.
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[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6566 Credit: 50,672,447 RAC: 19,971	Message 975901 - Posted: 5 Mar 2010, 9:05:38 UTC - in response to Message 975778.
	And BOINC isn't designed for this kind of power. BOINC certainly is designed for this kind of power. It's S@H alone that cannot support it. I know that your interest is only in SETI but your machine could be fully utilised if you used the facilities available within BOINC. F. But as confused as Boinc gets with only seti, I can only imagine what would happen if I had to download other projects also. Sometimes during downloads my screen can't even keep up with my 2 finger typing. I only have a 4 day cache. I meant the BOINC client. I had a 3 day WU cache (more wasn't possible, I needed to stay < 1.2 GB WUs on HDD. If higher BOINC go crazy and DL, DL and DL new WUs, because the estimate crunching time will be cutted the half.) Also the no work request if 'CPUs x 2' in UL overview is unfair. When other crunch happily new WUs, my GPU cruncher idled over days, because he didn't asked for new work because he had thousands of ULs.. they gone through - but slowly, very slowly.. or the 3 test ULs fail and I had a few hours break to the next test. Also boinc.exe had 3 hours / day CPU time usage. In this time a ~ 120 Cr. WU could be crunch. So - ~ 120 RAC / day. ____________ [Optimized project applications, for to increase your PC performance (double RAC)!][Overview of abbreviations, which are used often in forum and their meaning.] ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
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[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6566 Credit: 50,672,447 RAC: 19,971	Message 975905 - Posted: 5 Mar 2010, 9:18:17 UTC - in response to Message 975880. Last modified: 5 Mar 2010, 9:19:20 UTC
	Some answers to the questions regarding the computer. I got alot of questions regarding the computer and if someone really need that amount of power. The answer is really simple. If you just use it as your homecomputer... NO. Noone really need that thing, especially at home. At the End its a pure Workstation and the whole Hardware was designed for it. It really is a nice toy and I build it to see what´s the maximum possible you can build as a high end computer. When the other 24GB RAM and the 480GTX come I will put it down in the basement, install it in the rack and will use it as a VMware ESX Server. The Tesla´s will come out and thats it. Its really a nice machine but if you dont realy use it and bring it on the maximum its just a verry expensive toy. And it really is. With the Upgrade to 48 Gigs RAM and another 1TB Colossus it will probably cost around 22.000€. Way too much just for a daily used Computer for Office, Internet and Games sometimes. From the specs of the 'stderr out' in the PC overview, a C1060 is like a GTX260-'240' or 1/2 GTX295. '-= Vyper =-' had an AMD Phenom II X4 920 and 4x GTX295. He reached ~ 95,000 RAC, of maybe he broke as the first the 100,000 RAC wall. I payed ~ 2,000 € for my equipment. (940 BE & 4x OCed GTX260-216) (And this only because of SETI@home!) I guess Vyper payed ~ 800.- € more. (920 & 4x GTX295) AFAIK, IIRC - he is waiting to the new GTX3xx series GPUs, to build the same with 4x GTX395 GPUs. ____________ [Optimized project applications, for to increase your PC performance (double RAC)!][Overview of abbreviations, which are used often in forum and their meaning.] ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
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Fred J. Verster Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3232 Credit: 31,585,541 RAC: 1	Message 975980 - Posted: 5 Mar 2010, 16:23:42 UTC - in response to Message 975905. Last modified: 5 Mar 2010, 16:24:27 UTC
	If I had the money, I did build such a computer, even for 'gaming', it's overkill, besides there are 'other things', that is can be used for, then Distibuted Computing, although, I like it (CAD/CAM)F.i. the design of a MoBo, L.F./H.F.amplifier, RS232 to USB, etc. Meant for real electronics/computer freak's :) ____________ Knight Who Says Ni N!, OUT numbered.................
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Robert Hessland Send message Joined: 24 Nov 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 171,395 RAC: 0	Message 976039 - Posted: 5 Mar 2010, 20:45:15 UTC - in response to Message 975882.
	I got my GTX 480 today. Right now not really much are released to the public. I will make a new video end of next week wehen I got my 48 Gig Ram and my 5580 Xeons. When everythings is up and running I will post a new Video. The new Teslas (Fermi) will come probably end of April and I will sell the "old" stuff like the Tesla´s and the Xeon 5570. If someone´s interested in any of that stuff give me a note by email: ultra.gamer.2009@gmail.com or skype: avtechgroup. Greetz from Berlin - Germany
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Rabbit&Carrot Send message Joined: 3 Oct 03 Posts: 25 Credit: 74,314,988 RAC: 98,036	Message 976063 - Posted: 5 Mar 2010, 22:24:39 UTC - in response to Message 976039.
	I got my GTX 480 today. Right now not really much are released to the public. I will make a new video end of next week wehen I got my 48 Gig Ram and my 5580 Xeons. When everythings is up and running I will post a new Video. The new Teslas (Fermi) will come probably end of April and I will sell the "old" stuff like the Tesla´s and the Xeon 5570. If someone´s interested in any of that stuff give me a note by email: ultra.gamer.2009@gmail.com or skype: avtechgroup. Greetz from Berlin - Germany Wow, it's a very impressive (and noisy) machine and I am looking forward to your next post/video on the new GTX 480 card...:) ____________
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Robert Hessland Send message Joined: 24 Nov 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 171,395 RAC: 0	Message 976200 - Posted: 6 Mar 2010, 10:19:12 UTC - in response to Message 976063. Last modified: 6 Mar 2010, 10:24:24 UTC
	Wow, it's a very impressive (and noisy) machine and I am looking forward to your next post/video on the new GTX 480 card...:) Its funny, I installed the GTX 480 - 2 hours ago and try to run 3DMark Vantage. Crashes with an error everytime. laugh Games like Arma 2, Crysis and BF BC2 work fine without any crashes. Even GPUZ doesnt show any Infos about the 480 right now. hmpf I also found a solution for the noise Problem. I just change the Case from the supermicro to a Lian Li which is the only Case out there with support for Enhanced ATX and so many Cards. Delivery Time aprox. 2 Weeks. DAMN Need to change the Power Sup. too, cause the 2x 1200 Watt from the Supermicro dont fint into the new Case. But anyway, I´m off to Zagreb now. for 3 days, were shootin a movie there. Greetings to everybody from Seti@Home and keep up the good work! Rob ____________ I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. D.H. Lawrence
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[AF>EDLS] Polynesia Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Apr 09 Posts: 54 Credit: 2,340,673 RAC: 4,084	Message 976492 - Posted: 7 Mar 2010, 12:31:11 UTC Last modified: 7 Mar 2010, 12:39:26 UTC
	bonjour, Cette ordinateur est énorme par rapport au mien (i7 860, 8 giga DDR3, 2 A DD, 260 GTX avec 1,6 giga DDR3) ... snifff This computer is enormous compared to mine (i7 860,8 giga DDR3, 2 has DD, 260 GTX with 1,6 giga DDR3)… snifff ____________ Alliance Francophone
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