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Helmer - A relatively cheap home renderfarm
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:07 am
by Olis
Well it's a bunch of motherboards in a metal cabinet. Though it's quite fast for its price.
http://helmer.sfe.se/
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:16 am
by Stur
Awesome !!
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:46 am
by joegiampaoli
Man that's a nice Beowulf, it is awesome!
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:59 am
by psor
I need one of these!
take care
psor
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:12 am
by Kyokutan
Similar project with GPUs:
http://fastra.ua.ac.be/en/index.html
They beat a 3.5mio $ computer with this machine!
PS.: I'm not a fan of GPU vs. CPU.....but in this case the GPU-solution seems quite effective.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:02 am
by Sukrim
Just add more cores!!!111one
Well, Tesla is the "pro"-Version of that "FASTRA" thingie - however I wonder how they managed to:
- cool the GPUs effectively (there is no mainboard in there as far as I could see) 1500 Watts is not very efficient... maybe they should use some more dedicated hardware than 9800X2 cards (maybe even AMD/ATI cards, they are even cheaper)
- get a mainboard to accept 8 GPUs on 4 PCIe lanes (looks custom built...)
- get this guy to make the video, he just looks like all of those geek-stereotypes in one person
- build that much *bling* in one workstation
Edit: CUDA-Indigo anyone?
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:44 am
by Zom-B
Sukrim wrote:(there is no mainboard in there as far as I could see)
there is, the CPU Coller is just a hint
Sukrim wrote:1500 Watts is not very efficient... maybe they should use some more dedicated hardware than 9800X2 cards (maybe even AMD/ATI cards, they are even cheaper)
if CUDA is involved ATI Cards are dismissed... aren't they?!
Sukrim wrote:get a mainboard to accept 8 GPUs on 4 PCIe lanes (looks custom built...)
wasn't new even in 2005 -.-
Sukrim wrote:get this guy to make the video, he just looks like all of those geek-stereotypes in one person
+1 I love his clumsy gestures ^^
Sukrim wrote:Edit: CUDA-Indigo anyone?
In a Galaxy far far away... in a Time of 4GB RAM on board, GPUs working with double prezision there is a Indigo Cuda version ^^
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:43 am
by Kram1032
...as well as a CPU version for Indigo, with 4x precision and full animation support...
(and a third one, using both)
(and a fourth for ATI - /me doesn't have Gforce)
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:53 am
by cookieofdoom
I'm definitely going to build one of these sometime in my life. There's even an Ikea pretty close to where I live, lol.
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:42 am
by Meelis
Isn't there PSU-s that supports multible motherboards? Maybe server one.
water cooling wood be nice to.
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:01 am
by Zom-B
Meelis wrote:Isn't there PSU-s that supports multible motherboards? Maybe server one.
water cooling wood be nice to.
Check Google about the Coler Master 20 ghz 53GHz Mini-itx PC
http://www.minitechnet.de/typo3temp/pics/22a19c8d43.jpg
Here a german article:
http://www.minitechnet.de/cooler-master ... itx_1.html
The idea was to power 5 mainboards with one PSU and bring all in one Case... watercoled!
The PSU was slightly modified for this purposes, but seems to be easy to reconstruct!
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:13 pm
by Meelis
It's totally assom.
Will unmodified psu drive it. I really don't know how do modifie.
Tagan - BZ1300 might work maybe
http://www.tagan.com/index.php?option=c ... Itemid=143
It has 1104W on six +12V rails.
I'm going to burn everything down someday if i start modifing
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:48 am
by carbon
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:53 am
by Zom-B
Meelis wrote:It's totally assom.
Will unmodified psu drive it. I really don't know how do modifie.
Tagan - BZ1300 might work maybe
http://www.tagan.com/index.php?option=c ... Itemid=143
It has 1104W on six +12V rails.
I'm going to burn everything down someday if i start modifing
Its explained at some point in one of the videos shortly. 5x Cooler Master 12V DC-DC Mini-Converter 160W re used for this purpose!
The idea is to have one workstation, that can be used by 5 users at the same time. every of the systems here got a own burner, HDD etc.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:01 am
by Meelis
Its explained at some point in one of the videos shortly. 5x Cooler Master 12V DC-DC Mini-Converter 160W re used for this purpose!
I imagined that dc 2 dc converter inputs req volts from PSU's +12V rail, not like most single iTX system do from ac adapter's. Didn't they modifie converter dc-in to input from psu's +12V rail.
Does Vista run on such machine
PSU calculator told me I need 210W for: Q9550 / 4x ddr2 / 3.5 7200 sata HD / DVDRW drive. How can i share one HD & one DVD drive between motherboards.