Sure, GPUs die. Folding@Home is a pretty demanding application and I'm running them 24/7.
I went and checked the total current draw from the rack at the moment through my APC metered PDU (networked power strip). 46.4 Amps continuous across the whole machine.
46.6 * 120V = 5,592W
..and...
To answer some of the questions I've seen:
I'm using AMD Phenom Quad-Core 9550 processors in MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboards. OS is XP Pro and RAM is 2GB per machine. There are 5 machines like that currently for 20 cards. The head or "server" of the rack that houses the data has one card. I...
My 24 hour average is ~267,000 PPD. You can see that here.
The power consumption of a single shelf is ~1,125 Watts. I have 5 shelves and more misc equipment. Power consumption is probably around 7,000 Watts continuous. I haven't added it all up lately.
Well thanks, but there is an...
That is not correct. The nVidia driver only supports 8 GPUs. I have spent a lot of time researching this issue and at the current time it's not possible to use PCIe extenders or motherboards that have more than 4 PCIe slots for this reason. It is also not possible to run VMs on a machine with...