Folding@Home server farms and super computers

[Computer Hope Admin]

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.

AtlasFolder

Helmer

Diskless F@H server

Nitteo's farm

51 NVIDIA GPU

Good blog on NVIDIA system setups

[Calum]

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.

[Computer Hope Admin]

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.

[computeruler]

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 

[Calum]

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.

[computeruler]

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....

[Calum]

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.

[computeruler]

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

[Calum]

Which link is that, sorry?

[computeruler]

http://helmer.sfe.se/

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.

[Calum]

That's render jobs, not Folding @ Home.  It's a rendering farm, not a folding farm.

[computeruler]

Ohhhhh Grrr... I need some plans for some sort of wind energy device

[Leganfuh]

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.

[Karnac]

Wow!

[computeruler]

 
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