FASTRA tomography with 4x9800gx2's

[Sh1tyMcGee]

Looks nice, i would love to see that with a core i7 and classified 4way sli motherboard, with 4 GTX 295's or Fermi's when it get released, then im sure it would be faster than the million dollor super comp.

[Salavat23]

Something is not adding up here.

They claim they have 6 GTX 295s and 1 GTX 275. Then why do I see 2 GTX 275 boxes in this picture?


http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/?page_id=211

Also, there are only 4 GTX 295s in this picture:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/u...-supercompute/

4 GTX 295s + 3 GTX 275s = 11 GPUs, not 13.

Someone is bs'ing here.

[gumballguy]

Something is not adding up here.

They claim they have 6 GTX 295s and 1 GTX 275. Then why do I see 2 GTX 275 boxes in this picture?
Someone is bs'ing here.

& why do you see 10 boxes (and presumably there may be 12)?

Its probably an NV paid for pr stunt, given the boxes shown.

[Salavat23]

& why do you see 10 boxes (and presumably there may be 12)?

Its probably an NV paid for pr stunt, given the boxes shown.

How does that explain the cards in the case?

[lkiller123]

Wait, doesn't some rigs of our GPUGrid team with 4xGTX295s beat this "supercomputer"? And eww Phenom 9850.. At least get some AM3s..

[villa1n]

Something is not adding up here.

They claim they have 6 GTX 295s and 1 GTX 275. Then why do I see 2 GTX 275 boxes in this picture?


http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/?page_id=211

Also, there are only 4 GTX 295s in this picture:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/u...-supercompute/

4 GTX 295s + 3 GTX 275s = 11 GPUs, not 13.

Someone is bs'ing here.

Could be they switched out 2 of the 275's for 295s in the end but took pics of earlier configs? doesnt necessarily need to be insidious.

[[XC] gomeler]

I believe the two cards that say "GeForce" on them are GTX295 single PCB? You can see that they have 8+6 pin connections, indicating something bigger than a GTX 275 like the top card which is 6+6 pin.

[Angmaar]

They have to run the system with the left side panel removed as the graphics cards would otherwise overheat but they're looking for a solution for their heat problem.

If they remove the plastic/metal shroud from the 9800GX2's it will run a lot cooler.

[M.Beier]

moores law in action!

Doubt Gordon E. Moore likes this though.... He is the co-founder of Intel, you know?

Besides, this is alot more then doubling on 18 months

[FireDragon]

Im sure that there specs r as stated this a university that has built a 3.5 million Euro supercomputer....Im sure they wouldn't just post this up as Nvid PR, it is there reputation and it is for medical purposes.....u really need to stop doubting things lol, they even worked out problems and had custom parts made, this isnt fake or fishy in any way, It is down right JAWDROPING is what it is, although it seems they could implement better cooling that would probably help them out some with there stability issues, maybe even 2x power supplys, instead of one ThermalJunk Hunkpower as how much wattage does each of those cards pull? over 200watts each right? more like 300?

Dragon

[Power5]

Can it run crysis?

Seriously though. What motherboard is fastra2 using? I would like to see more of the setup and how they managed that many PCIe lanes. Is it a custom motherboard?

[crash5s]

Can it run crysis?

Seriously though. What motherboard is fastra2 using? I would like to see more of the setup and how they managed that many PCIe lanes. Is it a custom motherboard?

ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution. They are using PCIE cables.

They are going to have to WC this monster.

[[XC] Oj101]

Only an idiot would still try to put a phenom under phase. It makes them clock less, trust me I've put 4 different ones under a vapochill and the results speak for themselves. 2.75 max on a 9850 under the vapo, 3.0 on air.

My 9950 could suicide near 3.9GHz under phase

The rig looks killer, I missed the part about the motherboard used?

[jmke]

their claim of fastest "desktop PC" is hilarious though
it's only the "fastest" in CUDA apps; for everything else, any overclocked Core i7 rig with 2xHD 5970 radeons wipes the floor with the "fastra II"

[Levish]

well, now we know why Nvidia had all those "shortages" & "high prices", friggin Belgians are buying up all the 295's .... (yes I am kidding)

[clo007]

Something is not adding up here.

They claim they have 6 GTX 295s and 1 GTX 275. Then why do I see 2 GTX 275 boxes in this picture?


http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/?page_id=211

Also, there are only 4 GTX 295s in this picture:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/u...-supercompute/

4 GTX 295s + 3 GTX 275s = 11 GPUs, not 13.

Someone is bs'ing here.

Go watch the video and stop calling bs FFS.

their claim of fastest "desktop PC" is hilarious though
it's only the "fastest" in CUDA apps; for everything else, any overclocked Core i7 rig with 2xHD 5970 radeons wipes the floor with the "fastra II"

they are associating this "desktop" as fastest "desktop supercomputer" Obviously they are looking at computing power from a scientific standpoint and not from a gaming/benching 3dvantage standpoint.

[003]

Something is not adding up here.

They claim they have 6 GTX 295s and 1 GTX 275. Then why do I see 2 GTX 275 boxes in this picture?

Also, there are only 4 GTX 295s in this picture:

4 GTX 295s + 3 GTX 275s = 11 GPUs, not 13.

Someone is bs'ing here.

Obviously it is a big conspiracy between Nvidia and U of A.

[Wiggy McShades]

Something is not adding up here.

They claim they have 6 GTX 295s and 1 GTX 275. Then why do I see 2 GTX 275 boxes in this picture?


http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/?page_id=211

Also, there are only 4 GTX 295s in this picture:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/u...-supercompute/

4 GTX 295s + 3 GTX 275s = 11 GPUs, not 13.

Someone is bs'ing here.

count the sli connectors only the top gpu has 2

[jmke]

they are associating this "desktop" as fastest "desktop supercomputer" Obviously they are looking at computing power from a scientific standpoint and not from a gaming/benching 3dvantage standpoint.

all depends on that you define as supercomputer, if I want to throw code at it that doesn't run on CUDA their Fastra will be limited to the single Core i7

[tajoh111]

all depends on that you define as supercomputer, if I want to throw code at it that doesn't run on CUDA their Fastra will be limited to the single Core i7

What the point of crapping on this?

If this didn't have any limitations regards to programming and software, then this type of machine would eat up the super computing industry, of course there has to be limitations because it is so cheap(in comparison to real super computers).

The point of this machine, is that it can run programs at supercomputing levels at a fraction of the price and power, when particular program is written for it. This is why people cannot crap on this thread, in addition it doing work for a worthy cause. Its a supercomputer in the work they are doing, which should be an end of thread to all this thread crapping.

From what I have seen so far, the AMD is super far behind in this venture(even those it claims superior flops) and the results of making supercomputers using CPU's from either AMD or Intel = the million dollar super computers.

[blindbox]

My 9950 could suicide near 3.9GHz under phase

The rig looks killer, I missed the part about the motherboard used?

Browse their blog a bit, it seems like the motherboard is ASUS P6T7. And they make best use of those PCI-E extension cables. I wonder why they just don't go for 14 GPUs.

http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/?page_id=628

It's not just one Toughpower 1500W powering the rig either.

http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/?page_id=49

I found out why they didn't go for 14.

http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/?page_id=214 Wrong link, here's the one http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/?page_id=55

Ok you guys, go visit it yourselves :P

[v0dka]

The claims of "FAKE" and "THIS AND THAT SETUP IS FASTER" are hilarious.