NVIDIA releases new Quadro Plex D CUDA desktop rigs
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 12th 2008 11:32AM
posted August 12th 2008 11:32AM
posted August 12th 2008 11:32AM
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Sounds like a beast of a render machine.
They should make something like this for gaming cards. Be able to put 4 top-of-the-line gaming cards in here with a Physx card all SLI'd together with its own cooling and power supply. Make even more wicked gaming rigs.
Obviously still living with your parents, otherwise you'd be quaking thinking about the electric bill.
Nah, my house was built less than 6 months ago. Steel roof, great insulation, energy efficient HVAC, good windows, etc.. That and I get the "5-month averaged" electric bill. $130/mo. winter, $160/mo. summer.
That would be nice since most high end cards require 2 card slots and their own power cables.
With 3way SLi and CrossFire X finding room can be an issue if you have the audacity to want to put something else in there like a RAID controlloer or video captue card.
Bring me that or a motherboard with a 10 card long bus
Giger Train!
so... does this not have a traditional CPU in it? is it just running off general purpose GPUs?
It's not a "computer".. If you read the article then you would have known:
"A Quadro Plex D series VCS can turn workstations and servers into
visual supercomputers. Easily connected to a host workstation via a
low-power PCI Express adapter card, the Quadro Plex VCS gives workstations
the massively parallel processing capabilities of multiple Quadro graphics
cards and features an ultra-quiet design, allowing the system to be
deployed deskside."
It's simply a MASSIVE external graphics card, with A LOT (8gb) of memory
it is an external graphics card, not a computer.
if its an external graphics card.. is it possible to hook it up with a laptop?
ahhh thanks. i read the article, but there's a fair bit of hi-end jargon in there i couldn't get my head around...
presumably, Pixar will want some?
@Patriks7: It connects via a "Low-power PCI Express card", so probably not. And as was mentioned, this is for rendering, not making your Intel XpressGraphics run better.
Yes, it can play Crysis.
actually it cant, but it can render my car in pro e files in 5 seconds
$10,500. All in a $6 case.
Find me that case for $6, and I'll buy the whole unit.
...and do what with it...?
It would make an awesome mini-itx case.
Yeah. Except that it has nowhere to mount the motherboard. Or hard drives. Or fans. Or an IO panel.
Or basically anything that would make it a computer case.
I think the case looks really nice myself. Perhaps a little more metal, and a little more Nvidia green is needed, certainly for that price :).
I built a computer into a Pelican case, component mounting isn't an issue.
Looks like Biff's hoverboard carrying case.
Sure, but can it run Crysis?
NO because it's NOT a computer.
Fail.
But will it run vista?
No because its not a computer. But i am sure that vista's Aero feature would run incredibly smoothly when hooked up to this beast.
Have a good look, this is where the games that your computer won't be able to run come from. Kinda sexy.
Ah, I remember when I had a GeForce2, then GeForce4.. now I'm up to a XXX edition factory overclocked 8600GT. Can't wait to get home to try this stuff out!
Sorry, slightly wrong thread. I direct this comment to
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/12/nvidia-enables-physx-and-cuda-support-for-geforce-8-and-higher-g/
Can I hook it up to a computer and run Crisis?
I'd like to see one of those sexy babes they have on the boxes printed on the sides.
$10500 = assrape
Not one mention of how many TFLOP this thing pushes. My guess is 3-4 max and that can be done in a desktop for 1/5th the price.
I'll take it, wait its not a desktop, that whole thing is the graphics card!? I like the case though. :)
I wonder if you can get 2+ of these and put them in a sli setup...
WTF is that???
why don't you read the article and find out?
It's a lunch box. You can go back to your myspace "friends" now.
I know what it is, I just posted what my first thought was seeing it for the first time (which I'm sure a lot of people thought the same) - i guess I'll clarify that next time.
FYI: Myspace, Facebook, and all forms of social networking sites are the worse thing to happen to possibility of improving human interactions. Blogs are cool, cause thier focus is just information and nothing else.
Isn't this thing more for the Modeling side of things?
If you were going to Render, wouldn't you just build a "Helmer" cluster for 1/2 the price???
http://helmer.sfe.se/
ya its for modeling in solidworks, pro engineer, inventor, autocad, etc. i always say rendering even tho technically i know its not right. however, saying the computer is "modeling" something for me sounds wrong to me because the engineer/designer is doing the modeling, the computer is just taking your inputs and drawing them up for you. i guess theres no great verb to explain what the computer is doing.
and there are a lot of things you could do for 1/2 the price. really unless a company buys this and installs it on their server for everyone to use (not a bad idea actually and then the cost would be justifiable, plus it would make upgrading/maintenance easier). i kno my work just droppeg huge cash on a friend of mine in my department at work that does almost all of the model. 3.0Ghz Xeon, 8GB DDR3 RAM and a FireGL V7700 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195063). I know there are at least 10 guys in the company with comparable cards to him, of the ~30 who do modeling. $10k to ensure that anyone connected to the network could at least do some basic modeling if need be isnt that bad from a company perspective. as far as one of these for a single person, thats a little excessive.
So sexy...