Video of the Day: 23 GeForce GTX 295 Video Cards Installed in a Single Server Rig

malware · Apr 7, 2009, 06:19 PM

Wanna see what crazy is? How about 23 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 video cards installed in a single rig. Yep, that's not a typo. Named Atlas Folder, this wholesale pack of G200b GPUs (dubbed: folding server farm) is like an industrial grinder for Folding@Home. Watch the cool YouTube video here and feel free to leave a comment. I bet even NVIDIA engineers dream for such a monstrous distributed computing station.

Source: MaximumPC

Castiel · Apr 7, 2009, 06:23 PM

That is just crazy! Nice find man!

nicholasblock · Apr 7, 2009, 06:23 PM

What a waste!! I don't see any point in that at all

W1zzard · Apr 7, 2009, 06:25 PM

warm in the winter

ThomasDM · Apr 7, 2009, 06:28 PM

It's a Folding@Home farm.

http://atlasfolding.com/?p=448

tcorbyn · Apr 7, 2009, 06:34 PM

WOW.... so would that be like somthing used by OnLive servers?

shagg · Apr 7, 2009, 06:37 PM

Im sure it can run Crysis at 50fps with a resolution of 1920x1800

newtekie1 · Apr 7, 2009, 06:40 PM

Ah, so not all in one machine, but all in one rack, and only 17 actually in the rack...cool I guess. I wish I could afford to do something like that.

Jizzler · Apr 7, 2009, 06:43 PM

Yeah, not as exciting after watching the video...

Salsoolo · Apr 7, 2009, 06:47 PM

fake!
the video is for a folding farm. the link posted by ThomasDM

BigBruser13 · Apr 7, 2009, 07:00 PM

wow now what is this guy going to do when the quad gtx 390 comes out.
see the pictures of it in the link. You will trip out. I can't believe Techpowerup has not mentioned it at all.

[I.R.A]_FBi · Apr 7, 2009, 07:06 PM

^ its a joke april fools

http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f78/nv...y-pics-204159/

btarunr · Apr 7, 2009, 07:10 PM

All running on MSI AMD 790FX motherboards (no SLI). It's far from being the "ultimate gaming hardware", as only one of those 23 cards will be able to render a single 3D application at a time. Should've named it "ultimate folding hardware".

thebluebumblebee · Apr 7, 2009, 07:18 PM

OLD news:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpo...postcount=4280

Jizzler · Apr 7, 2009, 07:21 PM

Unless someone does a real 16-gpu single rig, I'm not going to be impressed. Money = more PPD, but it doesn't always get you e-peen points!

PCpraiser100 · Apr 7, 2009, 07:26 PM

Great find! That means if I owned this rig I would play Crysis @ max settings while folding!

goneoffthedeepend · Apr 7, 2009, 07:27 PM

The video link is also sort of incorrect. The video is his, but someone lifted and put their name on it. Atlas Folder posted here http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new..._single_server about that in the comments.

newconroer · Apr 7, 2009, 07:44 PM

The only thing exciting about that, or potentially exciting, is if one of the pretty blue lights suddenly went red or dead.

Apr 7, 2009, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goneoffthedeepend

The video link is also sort of incorrect. The video is his, but someone lifted and put their name on it. Atlas Folder posted here http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new..._single_server about that in the comments.

READ THIS GUYS ! People over at OCN were saying the same thing

btarunr · Apr 7, 2009, 07:51 PM

Story Updated. Thanks for the observations.

a_ump · Apr 7, 2009, 07:52 PM

yea, some hardcore PPD for sure, that's a 1-man team lol. but a waste imo

lemonadesoda · Apr 7, 2009, 07:58 PM

I|m sure that this guy has had a lot of fun building 6 machines into a 19 inch rack. But 6x 4 GTXs could be improved using a PCIe expansion bay. Since this is a folding farm and not GPU SLI, he doesnt need x16 slots, so an extension bay would be quite practical. He could use x4 for the cards, and easily drive 8 or 16 cards from ONE PC.

h3llb3nd4 · Apr 7, 2009, 08:03 PM

I want one if I was Bill

warup89 · Apr 7, 2009, 08:23 PM

they stole my PC name >=[ "Atlas"

soldier242 · Apr 7, 2009, 08:25 PM

man thats a lot of crunching power

Apr 7, 2009, 06:19 PM	#1
malware Eligible for custom title Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Bulgaria Posts: 5,413 (1.73/day) Thanks: 78 Thanked 986 Times in 497 Posts System Specs	Video of the Day: 23 GeForce GTX 295 Video Cards Installed in a Single Server Rig Wanna see what crazy is? How about 23 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 video cards installed in a single rig. Yep, that's not a typo. Named Atlas Folder, this wholesale pack of G200b GPUs (dubbed: folding server farm) is like an industrial grinder for Folding@Home. Watch the cool YouTube video here and feel free to leave a comment. I bet even NVIDIA engineers dream for such a monstrous distributed computing station. Source: MaximumPC Last edited by btarunr; Apr 7, 2009 at 07:53 PM.

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Apr 7, 2009, 06:23 PM	#2
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Apr 7, 2009, 06:28 PM	#5
ThomasDM Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 10 (0.01/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	It's a Folding@Home farm. http://atlasfolding.com/?p=448

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Apr 7, 2009, 07:26 PM	#16
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Apr 7, 2009, 07:27 PM	#17
goneoffthedeepend Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	The video link is also sort of incorrect. The video is his, but someone lifted and put their name on it. Atlas Folder posted here http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new..._single_server about that in the comments.

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Apr 7, 2009, 07:58 PM	#22
lemonadesoda Eligible for custom title Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,337 (2.17/day) Thanks: 749 Thanked 960 Times in 710 Posts System Specs	I\|m sure that this guy has had a lot of fun building 6 machines into a 19 inch rack. But 6x 4 GTXs could be improved using a PCIe expansion bay. Since this is a folding farm and not GPU SLI, he doesnt need x16 slots, so an extension bay would be quite practical. He could use x4 for the cards, and easily drive 8 or 16 cards from ONE PC.