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Qinsp
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Too Mucho!!

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:shock:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/syst ... .cfm?SAS=Y

Put four X7560 Xeons in that baby, a few HDD's and 64GB of RAM, and for a mear $25,000 you can have a 64 core BigAdv machine!
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Perhaps when I win the Lotto. :)
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Qinsp wrote::shock:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/syst ... .cfm?SAS=Y

Put four X7560 Xeons in that baby, a few HDD's and 64GB of RAM, and for a mear $25,000 you can have a 64 core BigAdv machine!

So, when do you plan to get this and write it off as a business expense? :biggrin:
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Qinsp
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When I want to commit "suicide by wife" ... :-D
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Last I read doesnt FAH/Gromacs have issues scaling that high? (the 48-cores thread)

U'd better have another DC project (or two) to pick up the rest of the slack.

Personally unless ur using the rig for something else like business I dont see the point in a setup like this other than for geek pr0n - just donate what u can spare, Salvation Army style - otherwise it's kinda obsessive and weird.
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Obsessive and weird? Have you been talking to my wife about me? :-D

Besides, you could run 64 Farmville games at the same time!

No, a machine like that is for those who need to save money by taking 20 older servers and replacing them with 1 machine.

Or for someone who needs to burn money by having a desktop 20 times more powerful than necessary.
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AtwaterFS wrote:Personally unless ur using the rig for something else like business I dont see the point in a setup like this other than for geek pr0n - just donate what u can spare, Salvation Army style - otherwise it's kinda obsessive and weird.
Says the guy who earns 62,000 points per day. :ewink:
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yea but only HW I ever bought for folding was 2 Nvidia cards (9800 GTX+, 9600GT) - and that was a mistake that I regret.
Both cards failed and had to be replaced (MSI 9600 multiple times), altho they are working fine now for past year I must admit
Stanford "emphasizes" Nvidia heavily and I fell into that trap... ah to be young and naive again.
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Re: Too Mucho!!

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Qinsp wrote::shock:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/syst ... .cfm?SAS=Y
Put four X7560 Xeons in that baby, a few HDD's and 64GB of RAM, and for a mear $25,000 you can have a 64 core BigAdv machine!
Personally, I'm waiting for the 5086B-TRF (http://www.supermicro.com/Xeon_mp/) to become available :!:

Imagine... 160 cores (8 sockets with 10 core CPU +HT) running BigAdv WUs :eo :eo

The motherboard has 4 PCIe x16 slots, so you could also add in 4 of the latest nVidia GPUs for "fun"
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Post by John_Weatherman »

Don't you need your own power station for that?! :)
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Pretty sure you can only fold when a lightning bolt hits.

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