This Guy has 46 GPU's in a folding farm - linkage to pics

[Sakesaru]

Pretty freaking impressive.

http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...gpu2-farm.html

Originally Posted by ENTERPRISE of OCN

Bet it cant run Crysis though...Ok im sorry I had to say it.

[benniebeeker]

pretty freakin ridiculous... lol

[AruisDante]

The electric bill is what's gonna be impressive... that's gonna cost ~$1 an hour to run assuming 11 cents a kilowatt hour.

[BabyGorilla]

That is friggin ridiculous. I mean, great cause and all and kudos to the dude, but...wow.

[levathar]

There is another post about that farm.
One inspiration to many and a odd thing to other guys.
But the guy is replacing a farm for another farm.

[Jason]

I wonder what the dollar figure is for that setup...

[gamer11200]

Originally Posted by Jason

I wonder what the dollar figure is for that setup...

Atleast $5000

[vistageek92]

Man think about how much money that represents....GAH!! that guy must be a million'er

[zander69]

how do u link up so many computers??? wt mobo's would u use??? stil dont get exactly how the programworks, but stil a good cause. two thumbs up to the bloke

[AruisDante]

Originally Posted by Jason

I wonder what the dollar figure is for that setup...

Assuming $150 a card, it's about $6900 in graphics cards alone. Add in at least another $200 for the bare essentials to run a GPU only farm (crappy MB, chepo CPU and bare minimum RAM, and a reasonable PSU), and that's about $16,100 at the minimum. Each system will draw at least 200wts under load, so that's ~$1 an hour, so about $720 a month in electricity. At the same time, that's about 9.2 kilowatts of power being dissipated as heat, meaning you need SERIOUS AC to keep it all cool, so add in at least another $700 a month in AC electricity. It is NOT cheap to run a farm of that size.

As for how you link it up, you just basically build 46 computers (or maybe 23 if he puts two cards per computer, I don't know if GPU2 can deal with that). F@H registers scores based on a username, so if you tell all the clients to add their points to the same username, volla, folding farm.

[zander69]

nar i mean just with wires wtc, what wires would u connect to the computers are we just talking ethernet here of sumin diff? and wt wouldbe the advantage of using these over servers?

[gamer11200]

Originally Posted by AruisDante

Assuming $150 a card, it's about $6900 in graphics cards alone. Add in at least another $200 for the bare essentials to run a GPU only farm (crappy MB, chepo CPU and bare minimum RAM, and a reasonable PSU), and that's about $16,100 at the minimum. Each system will draw at least 200wts under load, so that's ~$1 an hour, so about $720 a month in electricity. At the same time, that's about 9.2 kilowatts of power being dissipated as heat, meaning you need SERIOUS AC to keep it all cool, so add in at least another $700 a month in AC electricity. It is NOT cheap to run a farm of that size.

As for how you link it up, you just basically build 46 computers (or maybe 23 if he puts two cards per computer, I don't know if GPU2 can deal with that). F@H registers scores based on a username, so if you tell all the clients to add their points to the same username, volla, folding farm.

He could really benefit from getting some solar panels and running the farm off of solar power.

[Sakesaru]

Originally Posted by AruisDante

Assuming $150 a card, it's about $6900 in graphics cards alone. Add in at least another $200 for the bare essentials to run a GPU only farm (crappy MB, chepo CPU and bare minimum RAM, and a reasonable PSU), and that's about $16,100 at the minimum. Each system will draw at least 200wts under load, so that's ~$1 an hour, so about $720 a month in electricity. At the same time, that's about 9.2 kilowatts of power being dissipated as heat, meaning you need SERIOUS AC to keep it all cool, so add in at least another $700 a month in AC electricity. It is NOT cheap to run a farm of that size.

As for how you link it up, you just basically build 46 computers (or maybe 23 if he puts two cards per computer, I don't know if GPU2 can deal with that). F@H registers scores based on a username, so if you tell all the clients to add their points to the same username, volla, folding farm.

Mentions in the post that he's running at least 2 cards per rig. Some have 3, some have 4.

[MrObvious]

Originally Posted by gamer11200

He could really benefit from getting some solar panels and running the farm off of solar power.

And a few wind turbines.

[gunbo13]

Imagine in contrast a rack of 12 of these? That's 48 GTX280 equivalent units. That would be the most compact and fantastic looking GPU farm ever ever ever. I thought about this the first time I saw this hardware. They aren't available yet though.

[AruisDante]

that would be the equivelent of 112 8800gts

[gunbo13]

Originally Posted by AruisDante

that would be the equivelent of 112 8800gts

And an average load of 8.4kw. ~92 cents an hour using your kw/hr of .11. ~$660/month. Look he saves money!

But he could hook up dedicated AC for a single rack saving a ton of money. All you need is an exhaust and an enclosure, like a mini server room. AC would still cost a lot but it would be less then 30sqft of hardware (exaggeration).

Oh and that rack would also have 11,520 cores overall.


That's 1 Tesla 10p. The S1070 system has 4x10p. That means a rack of 12 would do 24,528 ns/day. I don't fold so maybe someone can tell me how much that does?

[gamer11200]

Originally Posted by gunbo13

And an average load of 8.4kw. ~92 cents an hour using your kw/hr of .11. ~$660/month. Look he saves money!

But he could hook up dedicated AC for a single rack saving a ton of money. All you need is an exhaust and an enclosure, like a mini server room. AC would still cost a lot but it would be less then 30sqft of hardware (exaggeration).

Oh and that rack would also have 11,520 cores overall.


That's 1 Tesla 10p. The S1070 system has 4x10p. That means a rack of 12 would do 24,528 ns/day. I don't fold so maybe someone can tell me how much that does?

It just means that it would be much faster than the rest. one CPU can do 4ns/day compared to 511 of Tesla 10. That means that Tesla 10 can do the Folding@Home calculations 127.75x faster than a CPU would.

Additional Comment:

Here's a good idea, get some solar panels and power 2 of those Teslas. You'd be fighting cancer without sucking up the power from the grid.

[gunbo13]

Originally Posted by gamer11200

It just means that it would be much faster than the rest. one CPU can do 4ns/day compared to 511 of Tesla 10. That means that Tesla 10 can do the Folding@Home calculations 127.75x faster than a CPU would.

Additional Comment:

Here's a good idea, get some solar panels and power 2 of those Teslas. You'd be fighting cancer without sucking up the power from the grid.

"That's 1 Tesla 10p. The S1070 system has 4x10p. That means a rack of 12 would do 24,528 ns/day. I don't fold so maybe someone can tell me how much that does?"

I just wanted to know what 25k ns/day is relative to. I know what the chart means but would 25k be the equivalent of an entire folding crew? The scope is really what I was interested in. It isn't massively important.

[gamer11200]

Originally Posted by gunbo13

"That's 1 Tesla 10p. The S1070 system has 4x10p. That means a rack of 12 would do 24,528 ns/day. I don't fold so maybe someone can tell me how much that does?"

I just wanted to know what 25k ns/day is relative to. I know what the chart means but would 25k be the equivalent of an entire folding crew? The scope is really what I was interested in. It isn't massively important.

25k ns/day hmmm. That would account for a pretty good amount. Maybe 0.01% for all of the folding crew worldwide. It may sound like a little, but since there over 1 million folding@home users worldwide, that Tesla could account for 0.01% of the entire folding. I know that it does indeed sound like nothing, but my P4 rig might do about 0.00001%. Basically that Tesla could do the same work as 10,000 pentium 4 processors.