Helmer - A relatively cheap home renderfarm
Helmer - A relatively cheap home renderfarm
Well it's a bunch of motherboards in a metal cabinet. Though it's quite fast for its price.
http://helmer.sfe.se/
http://helmer.sfe.se/
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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.
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.
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?
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?
there is, the CPU Coller is just a hintSukrim wrote:(there is no mainboard in there as far as I could see)
if CUDA is involved ATI Cards are dismissed... aren't they?!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)
wasn't new even in 2005 -.-Sukrim wrote:get a mainboard to accept 8 GPUs on 4 PCIe lanes (looks custom built...)
+1 I love his clumsy gestures ^^Sukrim wrote:get this guy to make the video, he just looks like all of those geek-stereotypes in one person
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 ^^Sukrim wrote:Edit: CUDA-Indigo anyone?
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Check Google about the Coler Master 20 ghz 53GHz Mini-itx PCMeelis wrote:Isn't there PSU-s that supports multible motherboards? Maybe server one.
water cooling wood be nice to.
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!
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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
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!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
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.carbon wrote:only 2gb memory each?
and why 5 burners?
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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.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!
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.
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