I want this ...
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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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