http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/ Engadget Comments for Linux cluster stuffed in an Ikea filing cabinet http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/Old news.]]>May 30th 2008 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/
It's an impressive feat, but I'd like to know how much it'd cost as well as how badly that bad boy heats up a room...]]>May 30th 2008 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://helmer.sfe.se/HelmerDataSheet.pdf) $3500 and apparently runs quite cool.]]>May 30th 2008 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/
interesting how the economics of all of this works]]>May 30th 2008 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/
Actually its quite a cool solution, nice and compact compared to 6 boxes, and I'm guessing has wheels so its easy to move round and can in the winter be used as a roaming radiator that doubles as an powerful mini render farm...]]>May 30th 2008 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/
Left your questionmark-reading skills back at school?]]>May 30th 2008 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/
That is just bad grammer?]]>May 30th 2008 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/
I wasn't after unintelligable answers. And yes, actually, you can.

Smart people need only reply now. Thanks.]]>May 30th 2008 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/
You can get much higher with GPUs, nearly in the TFLOP region, but anyone ever wrote a program to utilize all this power. It seems to be more complicated to program GPUs.

Actually i think his attempt for Helmer II will be 6*PS3, because he claims that it will have 12TFLOPS, which would be about 6 times the rated 2TFLOPS for the PS3 GPU (which seems inflated to me). Besides Sony doesn't allow PS3 GPU access. Can't think of any other solution how someone could reach (rated) 12TFLOPS at this price.]]>May 30th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/>> ...might be the first time we've seen furniture actually modded into a
>>> useful case...

About 30+ years ago I bought a 2 drawer file metal cabinet from the equivalent of K-Mart, cut a couple holes in the back and mounted some Radioshack fans, and placed a humongous non-switching powersupply in the back of the bottom drawer and an S-100 motherboard in the front of the drawer. Built a front panel plate to allow switch between 8080/z80 mode, reset, run/stop, etc. I think you'll find a lot of folks did something like that back then.
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My leg is always resting/knocking/kicking against the underdesk filing cabinet. I'd hate to get a nasty shock ...

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I'm sure his second rendition, or the Helmer II as he calls it, will be a big improvement over the cardboard covered box.]]>May 30th 2008 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/
Every piece of hardware does it's part. Now the PhysisX, and who knows, we could be needing even more compontents :P]]>May 30th 2008 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/May 30th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/linux-cluster-stuffed-in-an-ikea-filing-cabinet/
Its happening, slowly. There's gelato by nvidia (GPU accelerated renderman style renderer), bunkspeed, mentalray offloads a tiny portion of its work to opengl, and both pixar and ilm have interactive lighting tools based on the GPU, the pixar one is rumoured to be included in the next commercial release.

uptake has been slow, studios can't retrofit gpu's into their 100+ render farms. wait a few years...
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