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[Nvyseal]

A person over at the overclock.net forums and their folding@home team has put together an amazing folding farm, Consisting of 51 nVidia 8800 series GPU's and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which each have 4 PCI Express slots for 4 video cards per board, based on calculations this folding Juggernaut can put out about 265,200PPD




Lots of boxes.



Command Center



Top Hlaf Shelf with 5 Rigs of 20 GPUs.



Bottom Half of the shelf with 3 rigs of 12 GPUs.



Closeup of Rig #1, 4x Gigabyte 8800GT 256mb / P6N-Diamond



Closeup of Rig #2, 4x MSI 8800GT 512mb / P6N-Diamond



Closeup of Rig #3, 4x Asus 8800GT 512mb / P6N-Diamond



Top 3 rigs into 1 HD Cage





(Middle Shelf) Rig #4, 4x eVGA 8800GS / P6N Diamond



(Middle Shelf) Rig #5, 4x eVGA 8800GS / P6N Diamond



Closeup of Rig #6 (#7, #8 are exactly the same) 4x eVGA 8800GS / P6N Diamond

[David_Heavey]

That is just awesome!!

[Nvyseal]

scaramonga, on Aug 12 2008, 06:14 PM, said:

Controversial?

Crazy world........

51 GPU's burning how many k/w's of power and energy? and we cant supply enough beds/supplies in a hospital for our needy patients, in the UK anyway, awesome it may be, in reality, it ain't.

If everyone who had a 'spare' CPU/GPU had spent that much towards the above, then we would REALLY be doing a favour for society.

I'm as 'guilty' as the next person, I'll hold my hands up, but Folding@Whatever is a waste of time and money best spent elsewhere.

My 2c.
S.

Hi Scaramonga

First, let me be the first to agree with you.

I saw this and wondered how many kw hours this thing burns up. But you do have to admit, it is awesome seeing all this being used in such a small area.

I have learned my lesson in folding last summer when i watched my electric bill jump 200.00 a month doing hard core folding on only 4 SMP boxes and 1 PS3. I'll not do that again. BUT i generally have 2 or three simple computers running, most of them idle for most of the day, and i will allow F@H to use the cycles when i dont need them.

With that said, i still think this guy has an awesome show of power.

~N

[m.oreilly]

Nvyseal, on Aug 12 2008, 08:26 PM, said:

Hi Scaramonga

First, let me be the first to agree with you...

i just banned him!

oh f*ckin *hit!

[Nvyseal]

m.oreilly, on Aug 12 2008, 09:06 PM, said:

i just banned him!

oh f*ckin *hit!

Oh, ok, no big loss!

[Sphere]

The concept is nice, but somewhere along the line, indeed the electric bill has been forgotten.

I somehow cannot get the folding to work properly still. And I cannot run it on my laptop (something with heating up )

[m.oreilly]

i was going to download the gpu client, but the f@h site is not loading up...

[VROSA]

WOW ! That's a folding monster...

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51 GPU's burning how many k/w's of power and energy? and we cant supply enough beds/supplies in a hospital for our needy patients, in the UK anyway, awesome it may be, in reality, it ain't.

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have learned my lesson in folding last summer when i watched my electric bill jump 200.00 a month doing hard core folding on only 4 SMP boxes and 1 PS3.

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The concept is nice, but somewhere along the line, indeed the electric bill has been forgotten.

I also like the concept, but there are indeed better ways to help who needs... And I wouldnt want to pay such eletric bill

Anyway let's keep folding as much as we can !

[Nvyseal]

scaramonga, on Aug 13 2008, 07:52 AM, said:

I found this quite funny. Posted on another forum:

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To put everyones mind at ease, we didn't ban him