51-card NVIDIA folding rig can crank out 265,200 points / day
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 13th 2008 11:33AM
posted August 13th 2008 11:33AM
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posted August 13th 2008 11:33AM
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Well at least he can sell his furnace now to help make up the cost of that
I like the enclosure.
And people make fun of George Lucas for not putting railings on his movie sets...
I thought that all the 8800 chips were failing... seems like a really poor choice to buy 51 cards that are destined to fail early.
i hope engadget gets exclusive access to the explosion video's
They aren't failing. Charlie is a liar with a hatred against nVidia.
strange... my brothers 8800GT card is still working great!
they are failing because the stock fan settings suck. I'm sure nitteo set his to be always at 100% so he would have no problem with this.
stock fans, stock chips.. nvidia's stock
yeh they're all failing at first glance.
Nice.. now what about 51* ATI Radeon HD4870 X2 Cards? For a total of 81.600 stream processors running at ~100 teraflops, just $28.000,00.
( powersupplies, host systems and 22 kilowatts power usage {$990,00/p.a} not included. )
I don't think you can download the ATI client any longer...
From what I'm reading on the Folding forums, the GPU client supports both ATI and nVidia cards.
Forget Miles Bennet Dyson, someone needs to kill this guy before SkyNet comes online ...
And I thought I was doing really, really good with five cores processing distributed computing projects 24/7. Obviously I've got some catching up to do!
Lol. My mate sent me a link to this thread about 4 hours ago. hehe.
Mate as in friend, or mate as in lover?
With Nvidias recent problems, I'd say that rig looks more like a bomb. =P
It amazes me that things like folding@home have been able to get super-computer processing power for peanuts by appealing to people's computer size envy. Get jokers like this guy to spend cubic dollars just so he can say he's got the biggest one. They don't have to spend a dime. My other beef, is how do you know that the calcs you are running, are really doing what they say it is? It could just as well be cracking ciphers for the NSA.
I always wondered that about seti.. o_o
Well, with the news that all 8800 cards will fail early, you can now buy them for $6.99/lb...
I do feel like this post should have linked the original Overclock.net post, but that's just me.
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/370859-nitteo-s-f-h-gpu2-farm.html
I've seen other folding farms by some of the other high ranking OCN folders, but this one has to be the biggest. In 3 days the dude can make more points than my folding setup does in 8 months.
Yeah I'd want one of those things if i had to power a "FIGHTER FREAKING JET!!" Or rig it to use as a terrorists bomb.
This things a waste of space. Go pick up two ATI HD 3870's and your set.
"You're" not that bright. Two 3870s couldn't touch this. It isn't built for gaming, it was made for the express purpose of running FAH. It is OK though, in the future when you or someone you love gets sick and is cured by something made possible by what we are doing, you'll change your opinion.
Cant you see my sarcasm in the first half of the post?
I knew all you Nvidia fan boys would flame me for that.
It actually amuses me:)
I rather ATTEMPT to find cures for disease then searching for ET. Diseases have a MAJOR impact on our daily lives.
When we find ET, he will bring the disease cures with him.
I for one, welcome out extraterrestrial overlords.
donaldj001 - If you welcome your overlords why are you still hoping SETI find them?
or.. was it "floating" points??
Will it play Crysis on medium?
it would only use one SLI configuration, so maybe 1920 x 1200 X4 filtering at high
Haha, good thing all of his cards have faulty chips.. Possibly his Motherboards too.. Lets hope they don't all spontaneously combust!
yes....
but can it play CRYSIS !!
I'm waiting for someone to ask: "Does it play Crysis?"
damn... just 5 mins late! damn post confirmation! :-P
actually, missed it by half an hour :\
too bad.
What a waste of electricity. Some people just don't get conservation.
What the hell are you talking about? You have any idea what this machine is doing? It's certainly more efficient than your computer running idle while you go take a crap. This thing is performing a valid service 24/7. What the hell is your computer doing when you're not surfing for clown pr0n?
probably downloading clown pr0n in the background.
Interesting from a cost perspective using 256MB 8800GTs and GSs. More cost effective on the card front using those instead of 9800GX2s since 8 8800GXs, 2 mobo, 2 cpus, 2 PSU cheaper then 4 9800GX2s.
I just hope that room has its own dedicated cooling or is pretty well insulated from the rest of the guys house.
Either way, good to see somebody taking folding to the next level.
actually, he could just hook it up to the vents for the winter.
Thats It... If other people can devote so much CPU cycles to fold, so can I, Engadget Folding@Home team here i come!
Madness... brilliant... but madness.
Overclock.net FTW!
Does anyone know how you hook that many mobos together to do the same thing, how does the program know?
It's quite a nice setup but it seems to loose it's edge when you find
out half of the GPU power is wasted powering what looks like Windows
Aero... I would really like to see what the performance is when you
run a bare bones build of Linux though.
omg, don't bring this rack to North Pole.
It melts the ice.
It like you people are TRYING to make self aware computers that are more intelligent than us.
With 51 cards you could say he's not playing with a full deck. . .