Mega Machine

[picnic]

Linked from the SETI front page

Dual Xeon, 3x Tesla, 24GB RAM, Raided SSD + 1GB SSD. 16K Euro cruncher.

 

[SiriusB]

That guy has too much money!

And all wasted on SETI.

 

[verbal]

..and terrible points per Euro ratio

Like the layout and case though.

 

[Biffa]

Meh those teslas are only GTX285's

 

[Grimgoth]

I didn't think that hard drive read/write access was a bottleneck in doing any of our distributed computing projects- all my systems have quite old/slow hard drives in them!

 

[Hotwired]

I didn't think that hard drive read/write access was a bottleneck in doing any of our distributed computing projects- all my systems have quite old/slow hard drives in them!

He's not taking any chances

 

[SiriusB]

When you have just spent 12K on a computer, what's another few grand?

 

[derk]

Most likely he own's a computer shop and is just showing off.
There is no way whatsoever I would put up with that noise.
You would think that for that kind of cash you would make a quite pc - progress eh

 

[NightmareXX]

Most likely he own's a computer shop and is just showing off.
There is no way whatsoever I would put up with that noise.
You would think that for that kind of cash you would make a quite pc - progress eh

Why not? He did say it was in his kitchen and I expect the mic on the camera makes it sound much louder than it would be IRL.

If I had that amount of money I certainly wouldn't be spending any on keeping it quiet, all performance

 

[Biffa]

If I had that money I'd have an airconned soundproof server room in my house

 

[SiriusB]

Considering how blase he was about spending thousands more I would say he is horribly rich [doesn't look it], horribly stupid [and has one fat credit card bill] or, as above, has access to this hardware through his job.

Either that or perhaps he has come into a bit of money and he is spending it wisely...

 

[derk]

He might be a bit of a prat but if he should join the OcUK SETI Team I shall proclaim him God of all that is good in the Kingdom of Seti

 

[sir-les-mp]

Why not? He did say it was in his kitchen and I expect the mic on the camera makes it sound much louder than it would be IRL.

If I had that amount of money I certainly wouldn't be spending any on keeping it quiet, all performance

i dont think that was just the mic if you noticed when he pulled out one of the hotswap fans its a 38mm not a 25mm and as we all know 38mm fans are defineatly not quite.

 

[miniyazz]

i dont think that was just the mic if you noticed when he pulled out one of the hotswap fans its a 38mm not a 25mm and as we all know 38mm fans are defineatly not quite.

They aren't quite what?

No reason a 38mm fan can't be quiet.

 

[Stan_Lite]

No reason a 38mm fan can't be quiet.

Absolutely. I have three 55mm Triebwerk fans on my radiator and, when turned right down, they're not at all loud - still keep my loop cool enough for Folding.

 

[Berserker]

So €4K on SSD drives that do sod all for SETI (or any other DC project). With that much RAM, he could have configured a 4-8GB RAMdisk and got even faster storage performance and €4K in the back pocket (though a UPS would be a good idea).

The fans were bonkers. Why on earth they all went to full whack when he pulled one out is beyond me. Mind you, my old dual CPU Dell box could quite easily make similar noise with just two fans.

 

[shadowscotland]

HHD speed does make a differance with F@H
My SMP step times reduced but 5% when I went from a nothing special seagate to a raptor.
Not tried my SSD (home) with the GTX260 (work) yet - may give it a go and see.