I want this ...
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Itd be like having a render farm but without the need for the farm, mmmmm.
Think of the huge renders you could do with the 128gb of memory, 100,000x100,000 anyone?
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Actually, I could imagine to run it as a render farm for others who have poorer machines but set up their scenes (even animations) and pay for the render time on this machine. If you have the market for this, you could cover the costs in a year or so I believe.
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Would love to see how windows task manager reports activity over all those cores.
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Imagine a rig like this with SU using multi-cores on Linux (as Lewis "reported" his machine doing it...
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Bugger work, the big question is ... How does it run Crysis?!
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Probably not that well actually, unless you can put in a load of graphics cards. Im sure it wouldnt have too much trouble with the physics engine though
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The big question is, as far as I'm concerned, will this provide me with the kind of processing power for the doomsday device I've been working on?
muhahaha!
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You going to render it?
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Could it even run Vista maybe?
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With that many cores, you can just imagine how many 'Apples' it ate.
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Does it come with a free nuclear power plant to keep the thing running? Otherwise I'm sure it almost immediately brings the local grid down.
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apparently it will run on a normal office supply. Probably wouldnt want to hook too many up on an extension lead though...
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I tihnk ive found something to trump that machine: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6783
Kind of cheating a bit
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This guy built a 24 core, 48 GB render farm in an Ikea cabinet for seemingly next to nothing, and he's planning on building a 96 core version. No indication what actually he is using as rendering software, but who cares?
He gives fairly detailed descriptions of the assembly...and none of this looks particularly difficult.
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That looks like good fun, a beast as well.
As for the software, i iamgine it would be pretty simple with an unbiased render engine like maxwell or indigo, as you could jsut set each of the motherboards up as a slave and render like that.
Not sure where you could fins 6 quad cores very cheaply though, i thought the going rate was about 100 quid
even assuming you got them half price your still looking at 300 quid for the CPUs alone. But then thats a render farm for you 
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well, im still sticking with alienware's octuple core monster with 4 terabytes of memory.
and yes juju, it will run crysis, very very well. -
guys, ive found something more powerful called fastra
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/researchers-create-supercomputer-with-four-geforce-9800-gx2-card/
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Good find, its a pity there arent really many render engines that run on GPU power, youd be sorted otherwise!
Not to mention that fac that you could play crysis on a cinema screen on 'very high' settings
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I was at an IKEA today and was very tempted to buy a Helmer...
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