4x9800GX2 based super computer

[youpla]

found this on engadget:

Researchers in belgium just built up a super computer based on 4xMSI 9800GX2 and reported that with the use of the GPU parallel processing power they have been able to reconstruct images from tomography scan in less than 30 seconds while it took over an hour using super computer or cluster computers and best of all for less than 4000 euros.

check their website and video for more info...

http://fastra.ua.ac.be/en/index.html

another good and free advertisement for nvidia in the GPU/CPU war...

 

[ScooobZ]

nice, but what mobo supports 4 of these ? and who has that sort of money lol

 

[youpla]

the mobo is a MSI K9A2 Platinum with 4xPCI16Ex slots. However as they mentioned it is not 4way SLI, only 2 cards can run in SLI, so no big improvement for gaming anyway and they are far from the top 3DMark2006 score, but still havea very decent frame rate in crysis LOL...

and they can't even use SLI in their application as it is developped in nvidia-cuda which does not support SLI...

 

[CERO]

Thats sick man 4 of those, but imagine the heat build up there....

 

[clone38]

Bet it still cant play crysis

 

[CERO]

Bet it still cant play crysis

Yea LOL well I am also wondering how big the PSU must have been to fire that up lol

 

[darkorb]

look at the top, 1500watt!

 

[Hassan]

Pretty Amazing even after seeing that it is a Crossfire board.

Those GPU temp are really high. They should do watercooling on them

 

[mrapoc]

lol...thermaltake psu

i want one of those!

 

[ali_james]

Oh

No room for a sound card!

 

[Bungral]

That motherboard is getting gang raped!

 

[lamboman]

Is the guy in the video a rapper? His hand movements are rather 'strange' lol. Looks like a carzy scientist.

GPUs are the way of the future.

 

[DaveVader]

he looks classic geek.

Mad PC, not my cup o' tea to be honest and, even though it's powerful, probably only super powerful in Tomography as opposed to other type applications, not saying it's not going to perform well mind.

 

[Toxcity]

OUCH!

If one gives off 70oC at load.. what about 4?

I can see that machine seriously packing in.

 

[cybermaniac]

Pretty Amazing even after seeing that it is a Crossfire board.

how did they SLI an nvidia card with a crossfire board?!

 

[lamboman]

DaveVader, I think that was what I was looking for...

That is 'hot' stuff. Some water wouldn't hurt...

 

[GavX]

heh... the guy looks like he is playing Crysis at the beginning of the vid, yet worryingly doesnt look that smooth :O

 

[TamaDrumz76]

That doesn't look very good for cooling... There is no clearance between each card... Where is it getting its cool air from??

 

[GavX]

see those 3 big fans at the front obviously it needs moroe cooling, the GPUs peaks around 100oC when under load and overclocked , and that is with the side on IIRC, probably why they will show it off with the side off.

 

[Hassan]

Seems that the guy that the guy doesn't know much about computers coz he seems to be reading it off a screen or something.