Project CRUNCH

[freecableguy]

Hmm...what could this be? ;)

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/DSC00410.JPG

-FCG

[faruquehabib]

wow, the daily output is gonna be badass for that super-expensive server rig

onward!!!

[freecableguy]

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/DSC00414.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/DSC00415.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/DSC00416.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/DSC00417.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/DSC00418.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/DSC00419.JPG

SCORE! ES CPU's....

[conrad.maranan]

:slobber: Awesome new toys, buddy! :up:

[trance565]

ES??? y does it say intel confidential? did u steal??? sigh, cableguy, im ashamed ... i cant believe u stole. lol jk :)

[conrad.maranan]

ES = eXtremeSystems. Intel gave the CPUs to him as a gift so that he can boost our team's output. :p:

[Disposibleteen]

man cant wait until you put out some numbers with that thing, should be kick ass!

[freecableguy]

The unit arrived today. I am waiting on a couple of power pods for the 2 extra processors and a couple of hot-swap units for the harddrives I bought. I also picked up a floppy unit for this system. Once I feel comfortable that it is performing correctly I will upgrade to 8GB of RAM with another 8 to come at a later date.

[cupra]

wow freecableguy :slobber:
that is really cool toys you have there, we want more pics :D

[Entity_Razer]

YES PLEASE

more pics ! :)

and could I ask:

Where you bought those CPU's (not that i'm interested I could never afford them)
and how much they cost approximatly :) (if you don't wanna tell could you link me to a page where I could find prices for it? )

They look mighty nice BTW !

Nice rig you got there dude !

[[XC] moddolicous]

wow, that is awesome. I cant wait to see these up and running. U would be the only one here with an itanium cruncher.

[angrysquirrel]

I can't wait to see dbench results on this!

[Quanticles]

i have a server rig here that i might set up with two dual-core opterons... we'll race

[freecableguy]

Pictures...sorry, some are a little blurry...I can't seem to hold the camera steady...I suck I guess. Anyway, I will take closer pictures with more detail on request. Not up and running quite yet. The Power Pods for the Itanium 2 CPU's showed up and the two Ultra320 15K drives...and the floppy drive...sadly the Power Pods did not come with connector cables...waiting on those now for a boot-up.

Disclaimer: This system has 5 mainboards that are joined together using MANY edge-connectors. The different pictures you are seeing are these mainboards. One for the 4 Itanium CPU's (2 on top, 2 on bottom of the board), one for the four independent memory channels, one for the PCI slots, one for the I/O controller and server management system card, and one that connects them all together - the "hub."

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/Bottom_Itanium2.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/Bottom_Itanium2_2.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/Top_Itanium2.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/Top_Itanium2_2.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/Memory_Unit.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/Memory_Open.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/PCI_Backplane.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/Midplane.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/PCI_Slots.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/4U_Unit_Dark.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/4U_Unit.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kjboughton/Power_Cooling.jpg

[trance565]

hmmm, could u mebbe put captions under/before the fotos, cuz ive never seen a server system b4, and cant make sense of any of that cept for the pci slots and the ram slots

[angrysquirrel]

Wow, I've never seen a system like this before. Is this what blades are?

[Quanticles]

Alot of the 4p 3u server rigs use daughter cards in order to get all of the hardware into the space. You can basically break your motherboard into parts and connect the parts together with large connectors

[[XC] moddolicous]

wow, that is really cool. I've only seen one other system like this. Cant wait for you to get it crunching.

[perkam]

DONT TELL ME THOSE ARE .....ITANIUMS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO WAY !!!!!!!!!! That's ...... ...... ..... nuts :eek:

Perkam

[caLume]

man :eek:
thats impressive

[2fink]

:slobber: wow, i really like exotic hardware!!!