I want this ...

Stinkie

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!

remus

You going to render it?

Gaieus

Could it even run Vista maybe?

Stinkie

@remus said:

You going to render it?

lol.

solo

With that many cores, you can just imagine how many 'Apples' it ate.

lewiswadsworth

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.

remus

apparently it will run on a normal office supply. Probably wouldnt want to hook too many up on an extension lead though...

remus

I tihnk ive found something to trump that machine: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6783

Kind of cheating a bit

lewiswadsworth

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?

Building home linux render cluster

(helmer.sfe.se)

He gives fairly detailed descriptions of the assembly...and none of this looks particularly difficult.

remus

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

igor

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.

dudekracked

guys, ive found something more powerful called fastra

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/researchers-create-supercomputer-with-four-geforce-9800-gx2-card/

remus

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

lewiswadsworth

I was at an IKEA today and was very tempted to buy a Helmer...