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David Anderson Send message Joined: 13 Feb 99 Posts: 173 Credit: 502,653 RAC: 0 |
Check out a Youtube video about making a multi-GPU desktop supercomputer. |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 |
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. |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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Santiago Rasse Ortega Send message Joined: 4 Dec 99 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,167,377 RAC: 0 |
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 |
R0tb3rt Send message Joined: 24 Nov 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 182,531 RAC: 0 |
@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 |
BakCompat Send message Joined: 30 Jun 00 Posts: 7 Credit: 5,017,546 RAC: 0 |
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.... :) |
hiamps Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0 |
@arkyayn 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! |
hiamps Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0 |
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! |
Dirk Sadowski Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
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.] |
Fred W Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0 |
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. |
hiamps Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0 |
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! |
R0tb3rt Send message Joined: 24 Nov 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 182,531 RAC: 0 |
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. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Some answers to the questions regarding the computer. I would love to see you optimize that rig and see what the highest RAC on Seti it could achieve. Grand assortment of hardware. You have made the kitties jealous. Meow meeowow!! "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Dirk Sadowski Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
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.] |
Dirk Sadowski Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
Some answers to the questions regarding the computer. 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.] |
Fred J. Verster Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3252 Credit: 31,903,643 RAC: 0 |
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 :) |
R0tb3rt Send message Joined: 24 Nov 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 182,531 RAC: 0 |
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 |
Rabbit&Carrot Send message Joined: 3 Oct 03 Posts: 25 Credit: 80,178,117 RAC: 0 |
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. 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...:) |
R0tb3rt Send message Joined: 24 Nov 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 182,531 RAC: 0 |
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 |
[AF>EDLS] Polynesia Send message Joined: 1 Apr 09 Posts: 54 Credit: 5,361,172 RAC: 0 |
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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