Desktop super-computer

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:01 am

Fancy your own desktop super-computer?

720 cores and it only costs 7 Grand or so. :shock:

Makes your new quad a bit sick.

Look and weep!

http://www.armari.com/tesla.asp

fellie · Post by **fellie** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:07 am

Click on the pic, theres a 940 core one lol...

the 720 cores is good value at £10 a core :D

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:54 am

poo.....it does not come with 'vista' installed

must save a few more pennies....

b.

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:01 pm

Don't forget it's really an octo core system.

The 720 cores are on the GPU aka the Nvidia Tesla C1060 4GB.
Or in laymen's terms, the Business side of the GTX280.
Get a nice credit per day on GPUGRID with them

UBT - bobuk wrote:poo.....it does not come with 'vista' installed

must save a few more pennies....

I would class that as a benefit

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:19 pm

NaRyan wrote:
UBT - bobuk wrote:poo.....it does not come with 'vista' installed

must save a few more pennies....
I would class that as a benefit

No pleasing some people :roll: Still.. Faster gfx drivers on Vista :idea:

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:32 pm

All that money and you get a crappy Logitech cordles keyboard and mouse!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:19 pm

XP x64, Vista x64 or Linux, makes no difference to Telsa cards, as they are not graphics cards (no output connectors on them).

They are just pure CUDA co-processors (back to the 486 days with co-processors eh????, he he) nowt else.
It's why the system has a QuadroFX card (for the display), and 3 Telsa's (for the cuda)

Besides, if Vista drivers are faster, then why does my slower poota/8800GT on win xp x64, beat the faster poota/8800GT with Vista x64 in gpugrid........

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:26 pm

NaRyan wrote:XP x64, Vista x64 or Linux, makes no difference to Telsa cards, as they are not graphics cards (no output connectors on them).

They are just pure CUDA co-processors (back to the 486 days with co-processors eh????, he he) nowt else.
It's why the system has a QuadroFX card (for the display), and 3 Telsa's (for the cuda)

Besides, if Vista drivers are faster, then why does my slower poota/8800GT on win xp x64, beat the faster poota/8800GT with Vista x64 in gpugrid........

Ehh :shock: It was you who told me the Vista drivers where quicker, and i saw for myself when i compared XP x64 to Vista x64. However that was a few applications ago. Alot has changed since then including crunching times (13hour wu's for 2,400 credits)

Post by **Jeffers** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:33 pm

And there was me admiring my new I7 based PC. I was fascinated while crunching to see 8 threads running at once!

Gotta have a look at this CUDA stuff next....

And wow! Just noticed that I've nearly got 100k credits! Shouldn't take long to get there now with my new rig...

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:43 pm

Nice one jeffers :D Defiantly take a look at GPUGrid

Probably best to go for something like the 9800GTX+ or higher

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:48 pm

That was quite some time ago. (many many many many moons ago

)
The Vista app was the fastest by about 15% compared to XP.
Now is seems to be xp beats vista (no idea about linux, just know it has lower cpu usage)

Also looking at CPU usage windows XP x64 uses about 2%, while Vista jumps all over the place between 5% to 15%.

And that's on 2 idle systems, Idle as in they are only used for Boinc, nowt else, as both pootas do not have a monitor attached.
Heck on the XP system only thing plugged into it is the power and lan cables

Depresion · Post by **Depresion** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:22 pm

Jeffers wrote:And there was me admiring my new I7 based PC. I was fascinated while crunching to see 8 threads running at once!

Gotta have a look at this CUDA stuff next....

And wow! Just noticed that I've nearly got 100k credits! Shouldn't take long to get there now with my new rig...

My new rig is still doing the stress test period befor I start fideling, 7 threads of rosseta + one GPUGrid. Only problem is it's not on the network properly so I need to swap a CAT5 across now and then to update.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:37 pm

Depresion wrote:
Jeffers wrote:And there was me admiring my new I7 based PC. I was fascinated while crunching to see 8 threads running at once!

Gotta have a look at this CUDA stuff next....

And wow! Just noticed that I've nearly got 100k credits! Shouldn't take long to get there now with my new rig...
My new rig is still doing the stress test period befor I start fideling, 7 threads of rosseta + one GPUGrid. Only problem is it's not on the network properly so I need to swap a CAT5 across now and then to update.

Ahh nice one, although i don't see you on the GPUGrid on Temujins stats?

Post by **Jeffers** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:31 am

Ben wrote:
Depresion wrote:
Jeffers wrote:And there was me admiring my new I7 based PC. I was fascinated while crunching to see 8 threads running at once!

Gotta have a look at this CUDA stuff next....

And wow! Just noticed that I've nearly got 100k credits! Shouldn't take long to get there now with my new rig...

Ahh nice one, although i don't see you on the GPUGrid on Temujins stats?

That'll be cos I haven't tried it yet!

And made the 100K, yippee!

Depresion · Post by **Depresion** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:31 am

Ben wrote:
Depresion wrote:
Jeffers wrote:And there was me admiring my new I7 based PC. I was fascinated while crunching to see 8 threads running at once!

Gotta have a look at this CUDA stuff next....

And wow! Just noticed that I've nearly got 100k credits! Shouldn't take long to get there now with my new rig...
My new rig is still doing the stress test period befor I start fideling, 7 threads of rosseta + one GPUGrid. Only problem is it's not on the network properly so I need to swap a CAT5 across now and then to update.
Ahh nice one, although i don't see you on the GPUGrid on Temujins stats?

On that, dose anyone know why it's showing as PS3Grid not GPUGrid in my Sig?

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:08 am

Depresion wrote:On that, dose anyone know why it's showing as PS3Grid not GPUGrid in my Sig?

The project was initially known as PS3Grid and at that time only ran on PS3s.
They then supported GPU crunching and became known as PS3Grid/GPUGrid.
Lately they have become known just as GPUGrid.

Certainly for my stats, a project is setup once and if it then renames itself it will wait till I get around to changing it.
I would think your stats sig is something similar

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:11 pm

Jeffers wrote:That'll be cos I haven't tried it yet!

And made the 100K, yippee!

Sorry, i didn't mean you Jeffers, i meant Depresion. Lost in translation :roll:

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:47 pm

Ben wrote:Sorry, i didn't mean you Jeffers, i meant Depresion. Lost in translation :roll:

Its maybe due to "The Great PS3Grid Team Hijack" saga when we were all booted from the original team.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:50 pm

Oh... That :shock: