You need one of these! 8X GX2's

izzy eckerslike · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:04

A massive 8 9800 GX2's

NOT INTENDED FOR PLAYING GAMES,LOL

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27920304@N06/sets/72157605765341773/

BloomerzUK · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:06

I count 4 GX2's?

Unless there is two seperate motherboard boasting 4 GX2's on either side..

Edit: Yeh, 4 on each side.

Lightnix · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:08

I think he means 8 GPUs over four GX2's?

izzy eckerslike · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:08

No there are 8 GX2's 4 on each side

ik writes "As part of their research efforts aimed at building real-time human-level artificial vision systems inspired by the brain, MIT graduate student Nicolas Pinto and principal investigators David Cox (Rowland Institute at Harvard) and James DiCarlo (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT) recently assembled an impressive 16-GPU 'monster' composed of 8x9800gx2s donated by NVIDIA. The high-throughput method they promote can also use other ubiquitous technologies like IBM's Cell Broadband Engine processor (included in Sony's Playstation 3) or Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing services. Interestingly, the team is also involved in the PetaVision project on the Roadrunner, the world's fastest supercomputer."

Chimerical · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:10

Klo · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:14

Hmm, imagine the power the PSU has to supply!

Chimerical · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:17

Klo said:
Hmm, imagine the power the PSU has to supply!

Lol. There's four of them. For some reason.

lay-z-boy · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:34

Any links to what it does in detail?

And 2 psu's per system is overkill, considering what models are used.

Schnippzle · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:50

Looks like 4 psu's.

neoboy · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:59

I hope he's not folding with that,

platinum87 · 28 Jul 2008 at 16:59

and because of issues with software its a huge waste of money. i want benchmarks with Crysis 2560*1600 with Ultra high settings and 16XQCSAA

MiNxYyY · 28 Jul 2008 at 17:00

look how stupid the case looks all crammed in like that.

Meronem · 28 Jul 2008 at 17:17

not bad ! but have I missed something, they're all running serperately ?

BloomerzUK · 28 Jul 2008 at 17:22

It's for medical research. Not used for gaming, as the GPU are used for calculations etc.

There was another project similar to this which used 4xGX2s.

lay-z-boy · 28 Jul 2008 at 17:24

platinum87 said:
and because of issues with software its a huge waste of money. i want benchmarks with Crysis 2560*1600 with Ultra high settings and 16XQCSAA

Not for games, for medical research.

Schnippzle said:
Looks like 4 psu's.

Well done, two per system.

Meronem · 28 Jul 2008 at 17:24

Who said it was for gaming ?

i guess its swings and roundabouts.....

you could run 8 number crunching apps which will take 1 day (for example)
or 4 number crunching apps with 2 cards SLI'd which will take half a day (still 8 !)

BloomerzUK · 28 Jul 2008 at 17:27

Meronem said:
Who said it was for gaming ?

i guess its swings and roundabouts.....

you could run 8 number crunching apps which will take 1 day (for example)
or 4 number crunching apps with 2 cards SLI'd which will take half a day (still 8 !)

I don't think it will work like that TBH.

Meronem · 28 Jul 2008 at 17:28

probably not, the applications probably won't recognise SLI.
Still, its a great achievement, I think the build is pretty good, its tight but not cluttered

Leezy · 29 Jul 2008 at 16:42

Im sure it does its job well, but still looks horrid

Scoobie Dave · 29 Jul 2008 at 16:46

I wonder what benchmarks that gets in 3DMark