Render Farm, IT HAZ BEGUN!

[rossi94]

Don't know it but in comparison to tesla it's cheap.

 

[dalewakelin]

how does this only come to £300?!

I have no idea! Not complaining

 

[dalewakelin]

Concepts:
Outside:

Inside:

 

[rossi94]

Looks very simple but good, I like it

 

[koryusai]

Nice, looks good are your pxe booting them? where are you getting the blade's from, ebay?

Intel introduced two Xeon Phi product lines at SC'12. The Xeon Phi 5110P (pictured below), priced at $2,649, is already shipping to partners and will be officially released on Jan. 28. The Xeon Phi 3100 product family will be made available in the first half of 2013 carrying prices under $2,000 per coprocessor, Intel said.

Taken from:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412048,00.asp

 

[dalewakelin]

Nice, looks good are your pxe booting them? where are you getting the blade's from, ebay?

I have no idea yet, im deciding between 80GB HDDs or usb drives, and those xeon cards are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of my budget!

 

[dalewakelin]

Update: Im going with the 12U cabinet but im not filling it.
It will have:
1x Rack (12U)- £75
4x dell PowerEdge SC1425 (1U) - £200
1x 4U ATX Case (4U) - £50
1x PDU (1U) - £25
1x Network Switch (1U) - £25
Total (10U) - £375
The extra wires etc - £25
Total - £400
I will get the 4U case filled up in the new year. For the components im getting for the 4U case it will cost £400 including the case itself.
I will have room for a 2U ups or nas server in the future, i dont know what im putting in the 4u case yet, probably an i3 system for working on which will house my nvidia quadro 3400, i may obtain another 1 or 2 for folding

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This is going to be my rack pc that will be in the 4u case:

Im probably not going to get it all from amazon its just a reference list and the hotswap and card reader are required

 

[hmmblah]

What kind of Xeon CPU is in those PowerEdge SC1425's?

 

[dalewakelin]

What kind of Xeon CPU is in those PowerEdge SC1425's?

I dont know, its a hyper threaded dual core xeon thats all i know I will try and get in touch with the guy selling them to find out

 

[hmmblah]

I'm thinking it's a single core P4 based xeon with HT. Hard to tell from a search, but it's an older server. Find out for sure, and if that's the case, they won't be worth the electricity to run them.

 

[dalewakelin]

I'm thinking it's a single core P4 based xeon with HT. Hard to tell from a search, but it's an older server. Find out for sure, and if that's the case, they won't be worth the electricity to run them.

I know for sure its a dual core

 

[hmmblah]

All I've been able to find so far is this from dell:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/p/19242965/19373707.aspx

The SC1425 takes the Nocona and Irwindale Xeon processors which do handle 64bit extensions. The fastest we sell would be a 3.8GHz.

Irwindale are single Core with or without HT. Nocona are single core no HT.

Maybe there is a newer revision of the server with different CPU support. Best bet would be to get the service tag off of one of them and search on Dell's support site.

 

[dalewakelin]

All I've been able to find so far is this from dell:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/p/19242965/19373707.aspx


Irwindale are single Core with or without HT. Nocona are single core no HT.

Maybe there is a newer revision of the server with different CPU support. Best bet would be to get the service tag off of one of them and search on Dell's support site.

Thanks, im waiting for a reply from the guy whos selling them so i should be able to get moar info then

 

[dalewakelin]

The guy said he made a mistake on the listing, its a single core. Should i still get them or should i go for a something else? (Im getting £20 off the dells)

 

[hmmblah]

Electric use far outweighs the performance IMO. It would be a fun project, but you would get much much better performance with better efficiency with newer gear.

 

[dalewakelin]

Electric use far outweighs the performance IMO. It would be a fun project, but you would get much much better performance with better efficiency with newer gear.

What would you recommend for a rackmount pc?

 

[hmmblah]

Do like what you spec'd with the i3 build. Buy a rackmount case and cram desktop hardware into it. Get as many threads in a desktop CPU as the budget allows.

 

[dalewakelin]

Do like what you spec'd with the i3 build. Buy a rackmount case and cram desktop hardware into it. Get as many threads in a desktop CPU as the budget allows.

Should i get 2 or 3 with 1155 pentiums and upgrade to i7 next year?

 

[hmmblah]

I think it's going to depend more on the software you will be using. Decide on that first then look at supported hardware and what kind of performance you can get. I won't be able to give any advice on the software as I don't do any rendering. Others here might though and might be able to point you in the right direction.

Another thing to consider is GPU rendering if your software supports that.

 

[dalewakelin]

Im not going to get it this year, probably next december once ived saved up. After calculations and improvements it will be around the £1500 mark... Ill just get my workstation built this christmas