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« on: March 21, 2009, 12:48:51 AM »
I've been contemplating in my 0 down time to setup my own super computer  / server farm and while searching came across some nice setups. Thought I'd create this post to inspire me and for reference and maybe inspire some others. :)

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Nitteo's farm

51 NVIDIA GPU

Good blog on NVIDIA system setups
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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2009, 08:34:23 AM »
I've seen most of those before, but there were one or two I hadn't seen.
There are a lot of people running F@H farms etc .. if I had the space, time and power to do this I'd be right there.
In a few years, when I have my own house, we'll see though.
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2009, 11:48:59 AM »
Yeah power is my main concern about running a farm. My office is already dimming the lights when new devices turn on in the same room. :)
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2009, 02:42:22 PM »
Wouldnt that cost a lot though?
Just make it has green as possible
like a gold certified 80+psu no case so you dont need fans ect ect
I also though that fah for the gpu could only use 1 gpu. That guy has 4 on one board (1st link)

I would really like to do something like this like the helmer one
10-12 min per cpu! thats a lot of points to be made!

I think I will follow the guide from teh 3rd link.  Use an old computer as the server and stuff.  I just need to make some money....
donations are welcome  ;D ;D
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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2009, 02:58:41 PM »
It would cost a lot, yes.
Making it green/efficient doesn't diminish the amount of power consumed though, a server farm will suck a lot of juice no matter what you do, especially with high-performance graphics cards.
F@H can use one GPU per client - if you have 2 GPUs, run 2 clients, etc.
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2009, 03:00:34 PM »
I like the idea of that one without graphics cards.  that might reduce the power by a lot.  And they all work together! Now how to get money....
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2009, 03:05:49 PM »
Only thing is, the GPU clients pull in a lot more points than the CPU clients.
Work out the points or units per Watt, and i think the GPU clients are the better choice.
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2009, 03:14:02 PM »
But the person with q6600s said 10-12 min a WU and my WUs are about 2k sometimes a little less sometimes a little more
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2009, 03:24:11 PM »
Which link is that, sorry?
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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2009, 03:36:42 PM »
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The most amazing is that this machine just cost as a better standard PC, but has 24 cores that run each at 2.4 Ghz, a total of 48GB ram, and just need 400W of power!! This means that it hardly gets warm, and make less noise then my desktop pc.

Render jobs that took all night, now gets done in 10-12 min.
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2009, 12:10:33 PM »
That's render jobs, not Folding @ Home.  It's a rendering farm, not a folding farm.
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2009, 01:20:46 PM »
Ohhhhh Grrr... I need some plans for some sort of wind energy device
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« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2009, 06:27:41 AM »
Hi Folks,

I"m new to your Forum, I stopped in to check it out. Very informative.

To all that Fold and want to build a Farm, It all starts with one system and the Folding Bug. 



This is only part of my Farm.
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« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2009, 07:56:44 AM »
Wow!
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« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2009, 01:08:02 PM »
 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Me want
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« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2009, 08:13:49 AM »
Looks great Leganfuh would be interesting to see how it'd do on the Computer Hope F@H team. :)
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« Reply #16 on: August 03, 2009, 09:21:40 AM »
Yeah, I don't even want it for me -- I want him to fold for us!!   :)
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« Reply #17 on: August 03, 2009, 10:51:39 AM »
How much did it all cost?
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« Reply #18 on: August 04, 2009, 08:01:37 AM »
Quote from: Computer Hope Admin on August 03, 2009, 08:13:49 AM
Looks great Leganfuh would be interesting to see how it'd do on the Computer Hope F@H team. :)

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« Reply #19 on: August 04, 2009, 08:05:58 AM »
Quote from: computeruler on August 03, 2009, 10:51:39 AM
How much did it all cost?

I would put the cost at around $12,000.00 for the twenty Dell Vostro 400's w/2.4 Quad & Evga 8800 GT's displayed  in the picture, plus around $400.00 - $450.00 a month in electricity.

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« Reply #20 on: August 04, 2009, 08:57:52 AM »
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Very impressive. Well if you ever want to switch teams we'd love to have ya. ;)
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« Reply #21 on: August 04, 2009, 09:22:55 AM »
H - E - double hockey sticks - I can't afford the man's 'lectric bill!   ;D

Those statistics make me  ;D because if I don't  ;D, I'll  :'(.

 ;)

Seventy-four thousand points in a day...whatEVer...   :P

(Good for you!   :))
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« Reply #22 on: August 04, 2009, 10:18:14 AM »
WOW!!!!
Even if I could get all the computers, electricity for me would be EXTREMELY expensive because they are almost doubling the cost of it.  I need a wind mill.....
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« Reply #23 on: August 04, 2009, 06:13:13 PM »
I'm going to stick with my own super-computer.

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« Reply #24 on: August 04, 2009, 06:41:11 PM »
you do that....
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« Reply #25 on: August 04, 2009, 06:45:10 PM »
Quote from: computeruler on August 04, 2009, 06:41:11 PM
you do that....

Your only jealous!  ;)
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« Reply #26 on: August 05, 2009, 02:27:47 PM »
Quote from: Mulreay on August 04, 2009, 06:45:10 PM
Your only jealous!  ;)

I am that little guy is hot! Although probably wouldn't be that effective, would be real slick seeing a server farm of hundreds of those computers. :)
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« Reply #27 on: August 05, 2009, 03:01:16 PM »
Quote from: Computer Hope Admin on August 05, 2009, 02:27:47 PM
I am that little guy is hot! Although probably wouldn't be that effective, would be real slick seeing a server farm of hundreds of those computers. :)

That would be cool. Love to see a hundred of them all lined up.
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« Reply #28 on: August 05, 2009, 09:21:33 PM »
No, 1000!
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« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2010, 07:36:26 PM »
hai  frends :D
pls thid system wire ring diagarm ... how to build  rander farm pls help me...
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