 Massive folding farm with 51 nVidia Video Cards |
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 Aug 13 2008, 12:19 AM
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A person over at the overclock.net forums and their folding@home team has put together an amazing folding farm, Consisting of 51 nVidia 8800 series GPU's and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which each have 4 PCI Express slots for 4 video cards per board, based on calculations this folding Juggernaut can put out about 265,200PPD
 Lots of boxes.  Command Center  Top Hlaf Shelf with 5 Rigs of 20 GPUs.  Bottom Half of the shelf with 3 rigs of 12 GPUs.  Closeup of Rig #1, 4x Gigabyte 8800GT 256mb / P6N-Diamond  Closeup of Rig #2, 4x MSI 8800GT 512mb / P6N-Diamond  Closeup of Rig #3, 4x Asus 8800GT 512mb / P6N-Diamond  Top 3 rigs into 1 HD Cage   (Middle Shelf) Rig #4, 4x eVGA 8800GS / P6N Diamond  (Middle Shelf) Rig #5, 4x eVGA 8800GS / P6N Diamond  Closeup of Rig #6 (#7, #8 are exactly the same) 4x eVGA 8800GS / P6N Diamond |
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Aug 13 2008, 12:51 AM
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 =IBF2= Cofounder  Group: Sponsor Posts: 905 Joined: 29-June 06 From: Ireland Member No.: 634 Country: Ireland |
That is just awesome!!
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| Guest_scaramonga_* |
Aug 13 2008, 01:14 AM
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Controversial?
Crazy world........ 51 GPU's burning how many k/w's of power and energy? and we cant supply enough beds/supplies in a hospital for our needy patients, in the UK anyway, awesome it may be, in reality, it ain't. If everyone who had a 'spare' CPU/GPU had spent that much towards the above, then we would REALLY be doing a favour for society. I'm as 'guilty' as the next person, I'll hold my hands up, but Folding@Whatever is a waste of time and money best spent elsewhere. My 2c. S. |
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Aug 13 2008, 03:26 AM
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Chairman of the Board Group: Administrator Posts: 9,464 Joined: 8-January 05 From: From the whatever it is, Pluto Member No.: 9 Country: USA |
QUOTE(scaramonga @ Aug 12 2008, 06:14 PM)  Controversial? Crazy world........ 51 GPU's burning how many k/w's of power and energy? and we cant supply enough beds/supplies in a hospital for our needy patients, in the UK anyway, awesome it may be, in reality, it ain't. If everyone who had a 'spare' CPU/GPU had spent that much towards the above, then we would REALLY be doing a favour for society. I'm as 'guilty' as the next person, I'll hold my hands up, but Folding@Whatever is a waste of time and money best spent elsewhere. My 2c. S. Hi Scaramonga First, let me be the first to agree with you. I saw this and wondered how many kw hours this thing burns up. But you do have to admit, it is awesome seeing all this being used in such a small area. I have learned my lesson in folding last summer when i watched my electric bill jump 200.00 a month doing hard core folding on only 4 SMP boxes and 1 PS3. I'll not do that again. BUT i generally have 2 or three simple computers running, most of them idle for most of the day, and i will allow F@H to use the cycles when i dont need them. With that said, i still think this guy has an awesome show of power. ~N |
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Aug 13 2008, 04:06 AM
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 talking to the hand Group: Admin Posts: 7,977 Joined: 22-October 05 Member No.: 153 Country: series of tubes |
QUOTE(Nvyseal @ Aug 12 2008, 08:26 PM) Hi Scaramonga First, let me be the first to agree with you...  i just banned him!oh f*ckin *hit! 
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Aug 13 2008, 04:18 AM
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Chairman of the Board Group: Administrator Posts: 9,464 Joined: 8-January 05 From: From the whatever it is, Pluto Member No.: 9 Country: USA |
QUOTE(m.oreilly @ Aug 12 2008, 09:06 PM) i just banned him!oh f*ckin *hit! Oh, ok, no big loss! 
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Aug 13 2008, 10:35 AM
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 The moth next to my brain is Bart, say hi to him if you like  Group: Global Moderator Posts: 2,333 Joined: 12-February 06 From: *tap* Behind ya! Member No.: 265 Country: Dutchyland |
The concept is nice, but somewhere along the line, indeed the electric bill has been forgotten.
I somehow cannot get the folding to work properly still. And I cannot run it on my laptop (something with heating up  )
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| Guest_scaramonga_* |
Aug 13 2008, 02:52 PM
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QUOTE(Nvyseal @ Aug 13 2008, 05:18 AM) Oh, ok, no big loss! 
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Aug 13 2008, 06:02 PM
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talking to the hand Group: Admin Posts: 7,977 Joined: 22-October 05 Member No.: 153 Country: series of tubes |
i was going to download the gpu client, but the f@h site is not loading up...
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Aug 13 2008, 10:35 PM
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 The only thing that stands is the change Group: Global Moderator Posts: 1,706 Joined: 27-January 06 From: Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil Member No.: 257 Country: Brazil |
WOW ! That's a folding monster...
 QUOTE 51 GPU's burning how many k/w's of power and energy? and we cant supply enough beds/supplies in a hospital for our needy patients, in the UK anyway, awesome it may be, in reality, it ain't. QUOTE have learned my lesson in folding last summer when i watched my electric bill jump 200.00 a month doing hard core folding on only 4 SMP boxes and 1 PS3. QUOTE The concept is nice, but somewhere along the line, indeed the electric bill has been forgotten. I also like the concept, but there are indeed better ways to help who needs... And I wouldnt want to pay such eletric bill Anyway let's keep folding as much as we can ! 
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Aug 14 2008, 10:36 PM
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Chairman of the Board Group: Administrator Posts: 9,464 Joined: 8-January 05 From: From the whatever it is, Pluto Member No.: 9 Country: USA |
QUOTE(scaramonga @ Aug 13 2008, 07:52 AM) I found this quite funny. Posted on another forum: 
Admin.JPG ( 43.71K )
Number of downloads: 13To put everyones mind at ease, we didn't ban him |
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