Anyone here also have an extreme computer?

bratman, is that a vapor phase change system i see???? i think it is! Nice!

I have a few parts laying around to build one, like a Chilly 1 Evap and the Flex line, a Danger Den cube condensor and a Danfos NL11FX compressor at my disposal! plus all of the tools and tubing to make the loop + a full 30 pounder of R22.

I was thinking a Q9650 overclocked and cooled to -60*c would be a nice addition.

FrothyChimp said:

Antec case with analog temperature and fan speed gauges
DVD Read/Write
8-slot memory card reader
Three HDD hot swap hard drive system and cooler
Quad-core 64-bit Intel processor at 2.8GHz per core
1066MHz FSB
8 GB of RAM
Dual 8800 GTS 512MB video adapters in SLI mode
Samsung 24" widescreen monitor at 1900x1200 resolution
Windows XP 64-bit
Monsoon sound system.
10 SATA-300 slots
I currently have 1TB of hard drive space.

Extreme? Maybe. There are a few upgrades I could do that would put it over the top but performance per cost ratio doesn't justify it as there isn't a game my system cannot run as is.

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That thing seems pretty wicked. I love the FSB speeds! and the removable SATA drives are awsome. i picked a few of those up off ebay and from now on thats all ill ever use for my HD's.

I must have over 2.5TBs of data storage in my house. Seriously. lets see,

on my HTPC i have 1 maxtor 1TB drive (removable) and one 500gig Western Digital (internal).

on my DVR system i have a 500gig Western digital (internal)

on my dell laptop i have 250gig

on my sony vaio i have 90gig

on my gaming rig i have two 74gig raptors and one 250 gig Western digital.

on my print server i have 1.2gig

so thats 2.7 terabytes total, wow

I got nothing personally.  Well, a really nice laptop, but nothing extreme.  

My officemate, however, who is a graduate student in computational/theoretical studies of materials, has access to everything here: http://hpc.cnsi.ucsb.edu/clusters/clusters.php


Summaries of some of them:

1: The Dell cluster is composed of Dell 1750 dual CPU 3.06GHz Xeon servers and a single Dell 1750 monitoring node. The head node has 4GB RAM, 2 mirrored system disks, and a 2TB RAID array that is shared to the cluster. The 128 compute nodes have 2GB RAM each, and a Myrinet M3F-PCIXD-2 card. The nodes are interconnected using a M3-E128 Myrinet chassis fully populated with M3-SW16-8F line cards. There are two Ethernet networks, one for general TCP traffic (NFS, etc.) and one for administration.

2: This cluster is based on HP DL145 Opterons (2218's, 2.6Ghz) with a Myrinet2k high speed, low latency interconnect. Each node has 4Gb of RAM and 80 Gb of local disk space. (This is also a 128 node machine, each node having 2 dual-core processors).

And so on.  It's funny to hear his group sit around and talk about how one cluster is SOOOOO slow for certain jobs, and the smallest clusters are still 16 processors.  One system shows up as a single computer with 16 processors and 32 GB of shared RAM for extreme parallelization/high memory requirements. All that power, and all they ever see are command line print-outs and some charts and graphs.


Of course, people at other universities will have bigger systems than this.