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Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 9:15 pm
by Krisonrik
What motherboard is that? I've never seen a mother board that supports 7 double width cards. Are they all x16 slots? The best one I can find so far is the Supermicro one that has 4 x16 PCI-E slots. That's my dream machine already... if I can ever afford it.
Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 9:20 pm
by SurfingAlien
if only he hadn't crop the image in photoshop... we could see the generator beside the box
I'm a little envious... just a bit
(can't wait to see your videos)
Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 10:51 pm
by teknofreek
Yikes!
Thats a shocker... perhaps in more ways that one..
I'm struggling to get two gpu's into my pc...
Cheers!
TF
Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 11:59 pm
by havensole
I know EVGA just brought out a monster motherboard (
http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/) but the slots aren't double width I believe. Most likely it is a Tyan, or some other monster server board. I just found a plugin for the scientific computing software they use here that pushes the code to CUDA, so I might be able to swing the powers that be to invest in something like this.
Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:10 am
by YoonKyung
havensole wrote:Just to get some numbers in mind, how much did the rig cost all together? I wish there were more video compression/transcoding software companies working with multi-gpu architecture. I could probably get me bosses to spring for a system like this then.
USD 20,000.
Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:13 am
by YoonKyung
Krisonrik wrote:What motherboard is that? I've never seen a mother board that supports 7 double width cards. Are they all x16 slots? The best one I can find so far is the Supermicro one that has 4 x16 PCI-E slots. That's my dream machine already... if I can ever afford it.
TYAN FT72B7015, it has 8x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots.
Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:38 am
by havensole
Hmmmmmm.......... I might be able to convince them of that. Figure that's 3500 in GPU's to start, at least. PSU probably costs another grand+. Mother board another 4+ grand knowing Tyan. And the rest to the casing, CPU and ram. I'm sure one "might" be able to come in a little cheaper, but not without increasing the space, in rack spaces, required.
Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 9:53 am
by john
Ummm... yes, please.
Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 4:19 pm
by Whichway
SurfingAlien wrote:if only he hadn't crop the image in photoshop... we could see the generator beside the box
I'm a little envious... just a bit
(can't wait to see your videos)
Yeah, forget the render farm. Imagine the hamster farm to power the thing!
Whichway
Re: I am ready for multi-GPU test.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 9:04 pm
by pixym
Yoon,
Have you perform the bench scene on this machine?
If yes what are the results?