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Former Member
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The website TotalGeekDom is featuring a detailed article on an awesome wind tunnel cooled computer specifically built with Cancer Crunching at the WCG in mind.
Don't miss the article and pictures: http://www.totalgeekdom.com/?p=915 |
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GIBA
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The website TotalGeekDom is featuring a detailed article on an awesome wind tunnel cooled computer specifically built with Cancer Crunching at the WCG in mind. Don't miss the article and pictures: http://www.totalgeekdom.com/?p=915 For sure awesome project. Congratulations. Impressive results !   
Cheers ! GIB@
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nanoprobe
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Very cool idea. My only concern about moving that much air is dust.
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yojimbo197
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My only question is how energy efficient it is compared to water cooling.
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Tomahawk4196
Advanced Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Post Count: 93 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Looks impressive, though the air at the outlet end is blocked by the wall just a bit.
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ThreadRipper
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WOW, Awesome build and purpose!
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Rickjb
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Post Count: 666 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Sorry, not that impressed. Very different, lots of Wow-factor, and he levered that to get some publicity for himself and WCG, but there are ways of spending your time & cash that are more effective at processing WCG WUs.
And cooling the environment outside an Ivy Bridge (i7-3770K) CPU doesn't help much anyway. You need to remove the Intel heatspreader (the metal cap on top of the CPU) and replace the thermal paste by something better. See XS_fallwind's farm is a good example. The petrolheads say "You can't beat cubes" (of 1 inch per side, cylinder capacity in a piston engine). Distributed-computing nerds adapt that to "you can't beat cores". Here's another powerhouse: Some new stock for the farm of stoneageman More cores, less glam. Keep crunching ... |
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branjo
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Feel free to disagree with me as I disagree with you
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As to this particular build, me being me, I'd have put a little wind-vane on the mobo and see how long it lasts before being ripped to shreds... near the exhaust as else that lint could get on the comp ;p.
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Totalgeekdom
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Thanks everyone!
And I understand the concept is not necessarily the best cooling method. You could go with water, or phase-change, etc. But I wanted to see how far air-cooling could be pushed. I also wanted to try and get a little bit of publicity for WCG in the hopes that more people would join and crunch with us. I received a lot of great feedback and a ton of people messaged me in regards to joining that had never even knew such a thing as Grid Computing existed. So that was great.  The more people contributing the better.And yes, agree 100% on the Ivy Bridge heatspreader and cooling performance. If you read down into the section on CPU overclocking you'll see that part of my plan is delidding the CPU and doing further testing. Currently the heatspreader/TIM interface is a restriction. I'm looking forward to delidding the processor and pushing the overclock.  Also agree on the cores, you can't have too many of them. But in this instance this machine just crunches GPU on HCC. So it's all GPU crunching, and currently the performance of GPU crunching on the HCC application is in a league of its own. I wish I had more CPU cores to make more use of the GPU power, but with budget constraints I had to go with a quad instead of a hex. I'm happy with the performance though. For 400 watts this machine completes 4000-4400 double workunits per day, or 1.6-1.8 million PPD. Compared to my CPU farm with (3) 2600k's and 24 threads which consumes roughly 600 watts to produce about 200k points. Still have more testing to do on the system, including testing the coolers passively without fans, and also pushing the overclocks on the CPU and GPU. Fun stuff. |
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