Building a Folding Farm

sfu7274456 · Sep 15, 2010

Alright somebody suggested it so I am going to document putting together some more folders for my farm. I spent today working on rebuilding my rack, really just neating up the wiring. Moving a shelf and adding more places for my new folders.

This thread will hopefully lead to an article for the front page. I was wanting to use this to hash out ideas, what to document, sources, blah blah. Really for Brainstorming. So throw anything out their you want to see. I will start posting pics probably tomorrow. I am going to try to throw a folder together tonight and snapping pics.

Little Preview for everyone

BoT · Sep 15, 2010

sub'd

pik4chu · Sep 15, 2010

sub'd as well.

OSUmaxx · Sep 15, 2010

Looking forward to this one. I love the detailed build threads!

GIXXERGUY6 · Sep 15, 2010

I'm not

sub'n

Reason:

I'm jealous!!!! :rofl:

Sub'd I can't wait to start mine up.

I thought I had another pc within reach

975 msi x58m
6gb pc10666
1tb hd
27" lcd monitor
gtx260

for $500 but I think the kid is trying to pull a fast one on people. I told him I'm 4 hours away and would come with cash. He said it's sold to someone from Aussie land...

IDK

Shucks

sfu7274456 · Sep 16, 2010

Working on it, got four of the new folders up and running. Working on writing the text to accompany the pics. Been taking a bunch of notes and trying to put this into some kind of order that would make sense. Too bad can't catch a BigAdv to save my life right now.

David · Sep 16, 2010

Subscribed

harlam357 · Sep 16, 2010

ditto

the_cultie · Sep 16, 2010

GIXXERGUY6 said:
Reason:

I'm jealous!!!!

Will be keeping an eye on this partly for that reason as well

Looks like you'll be climbing the team ranks fairly quickly. Great to see new blood in the team :clap:

z24god · Sep 17, 2010

subed and would like to know what your cpus are and what your expecting for results from this farm ..... what kind of cooling are you going to use i would like to see a nice water cooling setup

deadlysyn · Sep 17, 2010

sfu7274456 said:
Alright somebody suggested it so I am going to document putting together some more folders for my farm. I spent today working on rebuilding my rack, really just neating up the wiring. Moving a shelf and adding more places for my new folders.

This thread will hopefully lead to an article for the front page. I was wanting to use this to hash out ideas, what to document, sources, blah blah. Really for Brainstorming. So throw anything out their you want to see. I will start posting pics probably tomorrow. I am going to try to throw a folder together tonight and snapping pics.

Little Preview for everyone

Does this mean that we will be seeing atleast one entry for THE CONTEST?

By the way, I noticed nobody mentioned this. You will get much more PPD out of that farm if "team=32" and "username=8thDeadlySyn". :rofl:

sfu7274456 · Sep 17, 2010

z24god said:
subed and would like to know what your cpus are and what your expecting for results from this farm ..... what kind of cooling are you going to use i would like to see a nice water cooling setup

Cpu's I am using all 930's with the exception of one 920. As far as cooling I am just using stock coolers. I have thought about putting it on water, but putting 18 CPU's on water would be pretty expensive. For the money that I would put into cooling them, I could build a couple more crunchers. Also serviceability would be tougher with having to deal with water lines. Now as it sits, I can just unplug the network connection and power and I can carry it to my desk and work on it.

As far as PPD right now I am getting about 320K PPD, that is with seven of my crunchers working on 2684's right now. I am expecting anywhere's from 300K PPD and 400K PPD with my setup, depending on availability of BigAdv WU and the WU's I am assigned.

Here is a screen shot of my current ppd. I still have one more cruncher to add

the_cultie · Sep 17, 2010

So much science being done. I am so wishing I could even some of those. Fold on! :salute:

harlam357 · Sep 17, 2010

That's just amazing!!! :drool:

Awesome!!! :beer:

What I think is interesting is the variance in frame times running the same project on a seemingly identical rig. Same board, CPU, memory, clocks... I always thought bigadv work had this somewhat variable frame rate and that screen shot confirms it.

Standard and GPU work units have sooooo much more of a consistent frame rate. Standard SMP A3 work varies a little. So this may just be a product of the A3 core amplified by the large nature of bigadv work.

All I can say is... I'm glad sfu is on our Team!!!

mxthunder · Sep 18, 2010

Yesss! Glad to see this as well! We need more people like this to hold off overclock.net!

Jolly-Swagman · Sep 18, 2010

Just simply awesome man, fantastic Team32 PPD boost, Thanks Bro!

GIXXERGUY6 · Sep 19, 2010

mxthunder said:
Yesss! Glad to see this as well! We need more people like this to hold off overclock.net!

I will be joining his ranks soon I hope.

I'll start adding to my farm within a year or less!

the_cultie · Sep 19, 2010

By the way, when do we get to see pictures of the finished farm? I want to see some computer pr0n

Jmtyra · Sep 19, 2010

sfu, you must stop building your farm. How am I ever going to catch you?!? Oh...wait, I won't.

Nice gear, looking forward to seeing the final pics. Sub'd! :thup:

sfu7274456 · Sep 23, 2010

Well Here are some finished pics. Still working on documentation.

Building a Folding Farm

Member

Member

Senior Yellow Forum Rat

Senior Member

Member

Member

Forums Super Moderator

Senior Fold-a-holic

Member

Registered

Folding Team Content Editor, Who Dolk'd my stars S

Member

Member

Senior Fold-a-holic

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Similar threads