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Grizely1   06-14-2001 at 12:04:39 AM

I was daydreaming today and I thought of this:

A large chamber, 100m underground. 84'x66'x20'. large dehumidifiers in each corner (i mean like the industrial ones), even though there won't be that much humidity already, since it's underground. (just for precautions)

Then have refridgeration units, almost like the freezers you put in your basement, built for 4 computers each. take the cooling sys out of a vapochill or vapochill2 (four of these cooling systems, one for each computer). so four supercooled computers for each refridgeration unit. Then, have 20 rows of about 10 of these. that's 200 of these units, with four computers each. that's 800 computers!!!!

Each computer has:

-- Dual AMD Athlon4 1.53GHz @ 2GHz or whatever (whatever they overclock to with a vapochill).
-- Tyan dual AMD mobo
-- 512MB CL2 PC2400 (300MHz Corsair)
-- 2x Cheetah 15x 26GB SCSI (RAID0 config)
-- some cheap graphics card
-- no sound

The main computer has:

-- Dual AMD Athlon4 1.53GHz @ 2GHz or whatever (whatever they overclock to with a vapochill).
-- Tyan dual AMD mobo
-- 512MB CL2 PC2400 (300MHz Corsair)
-- 2x Cheetah 15x 26GB SCSI (RAID0 config)
-- GeForce3 or NV30 (depending on when this is built)
-- SB LIVE! Value (or no sound, you're not playing games or listening to mp3s anyways)
-- 25x Afreey DVD-ROM (100+ CD-ROM read speeds)
-- 24" Trinitron
-- etc.


Now..... I kind of roughly put it together and the computers alone were about 10 million dollars.... not to mention the 10k a day for electricity.......

This is a computer enthusiast's wet dream.......

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scarecrow   06-14-2001 at 12:21:09 AM
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So it looks like you are still fanticising about a Beowulf cluster, I thought you had given up. You never did say what you were planning on using one for anyway?????

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Grizely1   06-14-2001 at 12:36:46 AM
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I have some CAD/CAM software and stuff thats made for that........ I know someone who has a CNC machine. (i go there to make things now and then, thats where i made the heatsink for my graphics card).

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starbucksaddict   06-14-2001 at 02:35:50 AM
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Well if you're going to dream, how about this:

each node:
<A HREF="http://www.appro.com/1124/index.html" target="_new">Appro 1124 Dual AMD 1U Rackmount</A>
2x 1.53Ghz Athlon4
4GB registered DDR DIMMS (if you could find 1gig dimms)
4x Seagate Cheetah X15 36LP 36.7 GB 15krpm Ultra160 RAID 0,1
3COM 3c985B-SX Gigabit-over-Fibre 64bit PCI Ethernet NIC

Put these in 45U Rackmount cabinets stacked 2 high on industrial "warehouse racks"

Given your dimensions and room for wheelchair access,
you could fit 16 rows x 42 racks x 2 high x 45 nodes
FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF........60480 nodes
OR 120960 CPUs
and one hell of an electric bill



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Grizely1   06-14-2001 at 02:46:51 AM
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Screw it just buy a couple ACSII-Whites

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starbucksaddict   06-14-2001 at 02:57:43 AM
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I think mine would stomp on ASCI White
which only has 8192 Power3@375 MHz

it'd be cool to test my theory anyways ;)

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kal326   06-14-2001 at 03:41:15 AM
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I think your just trying to be a one man SETI team. That or working on some type of artificial inteligence program to enslave humanity.

If at first you don't succeed, <font color=red>flame, flame</font color=red> again!!

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starbucksaddict   06-14-2001 at 03:48:28 AM
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Damn! My secret's out! ;)

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Grizely1   06-14-2001 at 03:59:01 AM
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I just got an idea......

Extend it to 100' x 75' and about 40' high (gotta reinforce this baby, big cavern)

alright so thats about 25 rows of 55 racks three high and 45 nodes each rack.

185625 nodes

371250 CPUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

742.5 TERRABYTES OF MEMORY!!!!

27,249.75 TERRABYTES OF STORAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


****FAINT******

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Grizely1   06-14-2001 at 04:09:11 AM
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I just got a better idea! Screw the underground crap!!!!!!

Buy or make a frickin' huge warehouse, 1000' x 500' x 100' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

100 rows of 100 racks 11 high 45 nodes each!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


<b>4,950,000 NODES!!!!!!!!!!!!

9,900,000 CPUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

19,800 TERRABYTES OF MEMORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

726,660 TERRABYTES OF STORAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND IMAGINE THE PROCESSING POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WO;AIEJFOAWIEFOIJWJEFIOIFWEOIJEIEFIOJIEFJIJ222222222@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@!11111111111111</b>

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starbucksaddict   06-14-2001 at 04:20:54 AM
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OK! from now it's decaf for you! ;)

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Grizely1   06-14-2001 at 01:41:52 PM
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How much money are those 1U racks????

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Tormented   06-14-2001 at 02:33:24 PM
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How about take the whole moon and fill it with racks of 1000 2Us each, and use the special IBM Cpu that have 8 Cpus on one chip and 8 chips on one board and 8 boards in a single case, well griz i'll live you the calculations. :lol:

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slvr_phoenix   06-14-2001 at 05:14:40 PM
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And all of this just to make the dinos look a little more realistic in Jurassic Park 4.

What the audience doesn't know though was that the entire movie was rendered. There were no actors. There were no props. There was no scene. It was completely digitally rendered and all of the voices were even digitally synthed.

Too bad it still cost more than doing it with real actors and all. Oh well. At least Jurassic Park 5 will be mostly paid for already.

If the opposite of pro is con, what is the opposite of productivity? Ground first.

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Grizely1   06-14-2001 at 09:46:52 PM
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Hey, I'm talking realistically... well, almost.... The cluster I want, Bill Gates can't even afford!!!

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