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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: decepticon on May 27, 2008, 08:29:01 AM
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This was featured on Hackaday.com and looks like a very interesting project for someone who needs a mass amount of computing power.
http://helmer.sfe.se/
(http://helmer.sfe.se/19-helmer-klar.JPG)
Building a render cluster doesn't mean you have to spend a lot of money, even if you're buying brand new hardware. [Janne] built this 6 unit cluster inside of a 6 drawer IKEA Helmer cabinet. He wanted the cluster to be low power and low cost. After finding a good price on 6 65nm Intel Core 2 CPUs, he found 6 cheap Gigabyte motherboards. The memory on each board was maxed at 8GB. With 24 2.4GHz cores consuming 400W, the power consumption and cost isn't much more than a high end PC. Each board is running Fedora 8 and mounts an NFS share. Dr Queue is used to manage the render farm's processes. [Janne] says jobs that previously took all night now only require about 10-12 minutes. The estimated capacity is 186Gflops, but plans are already in motion for a12Tflop version.
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Thats a nice cluster...186Gflops is pretty impressive. You could do a farm system like this for literally like 1100 bucks which is pretty insane. (less if you buy in lots from ebay for dirt cheap) I'd be interested to see what they're planning to do for the 12Tflop version
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Yummy.
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No, no, no, no, no. This sucker's electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
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No, no, no, no, no. This sucker's electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
Back to the Future. I think we need to start a Name that movie thread.