Poll: OcUK Stomp monster

What would you want the Stomp monster to crunch?

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Berserker said:
Not with a 1.7GHz P4 on 'only while idle' I won't. It's enough to get the job done by deadline though so may as well.

I'm in agreement about not going for one all out performance monster. Nice as the idea is, it's almost certainly possible to build two nodes with the same money and have them produce more.
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I agree.....

Both my rigs are quite small - but my seti RAC has just passed 52k.

About to start a new build which should net an additional 80k (when complete) - i7 930 & Asus Rampage as a base (with 470's filling it up). It will take a while to complete as it's a water cooling project (only way to go with 4 x 470's on one board).
 
I am assuming this capital cost of this monster was going to be done the same way as the original?
then for sure best bang/buck ie: 4 graphic card slot mobos with gpus added as shares were purchased.
 
frozen: no historically they just go towards the team.

Those thinking about SR-2 goodness.. might want to take a look at this
 
I wouldn't want to run a 1200W PSU thats able to peak at 1500W like the Corsair or Enermax 24/7 at their max rated envelope. You'd want a bit of headroom.

Also that was with 4 GTX460's, if you want GTX470's you could add 50W per card or GTX480's would add 140W per card :eek:

So swap the GTX460s @ 1200W for:
GTX470's @ 1400W or
GTX480's @ 1760W :eek:
 
I'm not folding at the moment for several reasons, but I intend to return at some point. What keeps me coming back to folding is the science, really, and for that reason my vote goes to F@H. If Stompyv2 is funded as before, then I'd be up for some shares of a folding behemoth.
 
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I think that we shouldn't necessarily go for the highest possible ppd we can get. New hardware and folding clients/WUs will come along and whatever gets built won't be as mighty after a few months/years.

I think whatever it is (one PC or multiple setups) it should:

1) average over 75,000 ppd

2) look absolutely awesome to capture peoples imagination and be something we can be proud of even when it's no longer the most powerful folder around.

3) be reliable, it should run unattended for weeks on end and not need hand holding so that people don't get sick of looking after it.

The first thing I thought of was something involving 3 micro-atx x58 boards, an i7 930 in each, all cooled in one loop by a water chiller. Each board could have a GTX460 with those three being cooled by a separate standard water cooling loop. All packaged up in a custom made case. Well it's nice to dream (and that setup wouldn't cost the earth)...
 
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I think 970 cpu would be a good start. From a folding perpective the ability to run 12 threads really makes a difference on the bigadv front.

But yes I like the idea of something different and special. Only problem with doing something "special" is making it reliable at the same time.
 
Trouble is, it triples/quadruples the CPU price for a 50% boost (roughly) in PPD - which just seems a waste to me. Granted, you have to buy more motherboards and other hardware, but unless space is constrained, you can set up one system with 930 and graphics cards and another with 930 no graphics cards for less than the cost of one with graphics cards and 970, with money to spare.
 
Wouldn't it be best to go for the bare minimum cpu needed to feed the gpu's. Im not sure with folding (never done it) but gpu cruching is a much better bang per buck, Id rather see 4 big gpu's then a monster cpu and lesser spec gpu's
 
miniyazz said:
Trouble is, it triples/quadruples the CPU price for a 50% boost (roughly) in PPD - which just seems a waste to me. Granted, you have to buy more motherboards and other hardware, but unless space is constrained, you can set up one system with 930 and graphics cards and another with 930 no graphics cards for less than the cost of one with graphics cards and 970, with money to spare.
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Fair enough, so if we go down that route what about socket 1156? The motherboards are half the price of the 1366 crowd and memory is less because its dual channel.

So:
i7 860 = £211
Gigabyte GA-H55-S2H mATX = £67
4GB OCZ Gold DDR3 PC3-1600 = £85
2 x OcUK Value GTX 460 = £287
Total = £650




edgedemon said:
Wouldn't it be best to go for the bare minimum cpu needed to feed the gpu's. Im not sure with folding (never done it) but gpu cruching is a much better bang per buck, Id rather see 4 big gpu's then a monster cpu and lesser spec gpu's
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For Seti/Milkyway I agree.

But for Folding its harder to balance.

e.g.
i7 920 @ 4.0Ghz = 30K PPD
GTX 480 = 14-16K PPD

So losing the CPU out of the equation can have a significant impact on the output of the machine. Thats why its tricky to spec, you may want 4 cards but to maximise output you will need a 6 core +HT cpu to get the maximum output from the box.

The thing about BOINC apps is its truly difficult to measure the performance of the individual parts of a single box while running CPU/GPU apps. In folding you can see exactly the effect of changing one or the other part on the current output of the other parts of the machine. :)
 
Biffa said:
What about socket 1156? The motherboards are half the price of the 1366 crowd and memory is less because its dual channel.

So:
i7 860 = £211
Gigabyte GA-H55-S2H mATX = £67
4GB OCZ Gold DDR3 PC3-1600 = £85
2 x OcUK Value GTX 460 = £287
Total = £650
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I like this setup. Nice points per pound. Anyone know what kind of overclock would be needed for this system to get through bigadv WUs on time?
 
I'd never really considered 1156 for no particular reason, but it makes sense actually. Assuming PPD is similar for a 1156 i7 vs 1366 i7 at the same clock speed?
 
On windows bigadv only uses 1GB

That mobo can clock up to 4Ghz, looks like 860's can do 4Ghz with around 1.34V

A 4Ghz i7-920 does around 28-30K PPD with a TPF of 35 minutes or so.
 
Wouldn't attempt to OC an i7 on the H55-S2H, limited Overclocking an it is designed for lower powered i3 chip and it has no Mosfet cooling.

if you are going for a H55 board (not recommended for 1156 i7) go for the Asus P7H55-USB3
 
I've just voted seti in the poll but sharing it out sounds best. I wasn't around for the last one. how did funding it work? I'm in for chipping in as those photos of the last one look great.
 
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