Pics of your FARM!

[DDTUNG]

Just to answer a couple of questions.

The AMD DCs are cooled by CNPS9500s and TTBTs.

Pics 1, 3, and 5 were taken in the 'war room' where ambient is maintained at 20C plus or minus 2C. That room has its own dedicated 60A power line.

The dealing room is for Hong Kong equities and derivatives.

All rigs except those in the dealing room are connected via 5 3Com or DLink switches to the company's LAN.

There are two 8 port KVM switches in the farm. 12 other rigs are connected with monitors, keyboards, and mice and are used to monitor the rest of the farm via Remote Desktop.

The present setup took about 2 years to assemble and fine tune.

DDTUNG

[Movieman]

Just to answer a couple of questions.

The AMD DCs are cooled by CNPS9500s and TTBTs.

Pics 1, 3, and 5 were taken in the 'war room' where ambient is maintained at 20C plus or minus 2C. That room has its own dedicated 60A power line.

The dealing room is for Hong Kong equities and derivatives.

All rigs except those in the dealing room are connected via 5 3Com or DLink switches to the company's LAN.

There are two 8 port KVM switches in the farm. 12 other rigs are connected with monitors, keyboards, and mice and are used to monitor the rest of the farm via Remote Desktop.

The present setup took about 2 years to assemble and fine tune.

DDTUNG

Thanks for the pics Victor.
One sits back and wonders how you do those numbers.
Was nice to see the hardware and setups!

[karl_eller]

Pfft, you're the boss, just install it on the rigs and don't tell them Set it to use 50-75%, and I doubt they'd even notice it. Then use a Server install and disable the Boinc manager loading on startup, and there won't even be the tell-tale notification icon

Also, you said you have another 3 quads coming, for which you'd have to take down two dual Xeon rigs and one p4. Why don't you take down 3 P4 rigs, since the dual Xeons would generate more points? Unless all the P4 rigs are workstations that are being used by people? In which case you could give them a "free" upgrade

Eller

[Movieman]

Credit also goes to my partner, Eugene, who gives me full support for the project.

My only regret is that staff resistance has prevented me from running WCG on another 100 or so P4 HTs at the office.

DDTUNG

You could threaten them with giving me their tel numbers!
Seriously, with the new versions of BOINC those P4's set for 25-50% usage they'd never notice

[phelan1777]

[DDTUNG]

Pfft, you're the boss, just install it on the rigs and don't tell them Set it to use 50-75%, and I doubt they'd even notice it. Then use a Server install and disable the Boinc manager loading on startup, and there won't even be the tell-tale notification icon

Also, you said you have another 3 quads coming, for which you'd have to take down two dual Xeon rigs and one p4. Why don't you take down 3 P4 rigs, since the dual Xeons would generate more points? Unless all the P4 rigs are workstations that are being used by people? In which case you could give them a "free" upgrade

Eller

If I forced it down their throats it would give the system admins an excuse if something went wrong. And in our business mistakes can be very costly.

I am going to take down 2 DXs because I need the PSUs and HDDs on them, plus I can still sell the DXs to help pay for the quads.

DDTUNG

[DDTUNG]

You could threaten them with giving me their tel numbers!
Seriously, with the new versions of BOINC those P4's set for 25-50% usage they'd never notice

Why go through all that trouble when I can simply add a few quads and achieve the same result?

At my age I've learned to take the path of least resistance.

DDTUNG

[Movieman]

Why go through all that trouble when I can simply add a few quads and achieve the same result?

At my age I've learned to take the path of least resistance.

DDTUNG

Point, I always think from cost first but in this your right.
Keeps the BS factor down from the IT guys and that in itself is worth the expense.
Question I always wanted to ask you:
Whats the fastest machine that you have?

[DDTUNG]

Point, I always think from cost first but in this your right.
Keeps the BS factor down from the IT guys and that in itself is worth the expense.
Question I always wanted to ask you:
Whats the fastest machine that you have?

A little watercooled X3220 ES B3 that's been crunching 24/7/365 at 3.8G for over a year. Four QX6700s are also watercooled at 3.7G.

For most of the quads I've found a sweet spot at 3.5G for B3s and 3.6G for G0s on air. I am sure many will go higher, but I'm after stability and peace of mind.

DDTUNG

[phelan1777]

Why go through all that trouble when I can simply add a few quads and achieve the same result?

At my age I've learned to take the path of least resistance.

DDTUNG

At my age I am still trying to figure out the past of least resistance.

[[XC] serlv]

I am sure many will go higher, but I'm after stability and peace of mind.

DDTUNG

Amen to that, Victor!

I can relate. Sort of. On a much smaller scale.
When dealing with a plethora of machines the less maintenance the better!

[Movieman]

A little watercooled X3220 ES B3 that's been crunching 24/7/365 at 3.8G for over a year. Four QX6700s are also watercooled at 3.7G.

For most of the quads I've found a sweet spot at 3.5G for B3s and 3.6G for G0s on air. I am sure many will go higher, but I'm after stability and peace of mind.

DDTUNG

I got to work out a way to get one of those ST rigs into your office and see what you could do with it.

[DDTUNG]

I got to work out a way to get one of those ST rigs into your office and see what you could do with it.

Victor Wang has already shown you what could be done with it. Nowadays I let the young guys sweat.

DDTUNG

[64dragon]

thanks for the pics DDT, and thank you for all the work you have done and continue to do

[StyM]

Woooooooooooooooooooooow..... :d

[PkG.1337]

wow, DDT, unbelievable
seeing this kind of dedication that makes me want to build more rigs
if i use all of my spare parts plus some cheap psu and other stuff, i can get 4 more rigs running which includes a T7300, p4 and another quad
i hope i can get them running ASAP.

great works, DDT!

[SewerSide]

DDT, WOW.
Very impressive.
Have shown alot of the non-crunching dudes at work and even they are drooling.
You give us all something to 'chase' after
Thankyou for those amazing pictures.

[[XC] junglemaster]

Just added 2 more Quads to the mix. I will post a few pics of my farm tomorrow I even bought some shelving today to take 3 of them out of my lounge room and put them into my messy / PC / second bedroom

Unfortunately I have so much work to do that I did not get Vista installed on the 2nd new one...will hopefully do tomorrow when I am not so tired

[DDTUNG]

Just added 2 more Quads to the mix. I will post a few pics of my farm tomorrow I even bought some shelving today to take 3 of them out of my lounge room and put them into my messy / PC / second bedroom

Unfortunately I have so much work to do that I did not get Vista installed on the 2nd new one...will hopefully do tomorrow when I am not so tired

Welcome to the world of crunching farm on shelves.

DDTUNG

[[XC] junglemaster]

Welcome to the world of crunching farm on shelves.

DDTUNG

It honestly happened to me after seeing how well yours were sitting on that shelving

[Shaz]

Pic #1: 25 AMD DCs and a QX6700.

Pic #2: Dealing room with 20 3.0 P4 HTs.

Pic #3: 6 Dual Xeons, 1 C2D, and 10 quads.

Pic #4: My office, 2 3.0 P4 Hts, 1 AMD DC, 1 C2D, and 9 quads.

Pic #5: 19 quads.

Not shown in the pics are 3 quads, and 2 3.0 P4 HTs at my house.

That's 100 rigs the last time I counted.

Soon there will be 3 more quads to make a total of 45, but two DXs and 1 P4 will have to go to make room.

Thanks Wes for hosting the pics.

DDTUNG

I can't see them

[David_L6]

I can't see them

This post:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...27#post2875027

[Mjhieu]

[sierra_bound]

Awesome farm, Victor. Thanks for sharing.

[anubis]

DDTUNG

Thats gotta be....the most awesome thing ive ever seen

i LOVE your dedication, its over the top.

Hope i can someday give back as much