Comments on: 24 core Ikea cluster

By: Tim M.

Tim M. — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:49:10 +0000

A friend and I built another version of a 24-core Linux cluster built into a $29.99 Ikea Helmer cabinet. The total cost is $2550.11. The design and implementation is robust and elegant. On my blog, I show how to build it in pictures, breakdown the component costs, talk about air flow, and discuss idle and full speed temperatures. We think our solution is practical and feasible for other people needing a small cluster for specialty applications.

http://obscuredclarity.blogspot.com/2008/09/24-core-linux-cluster-in-2999-case-from.html

By: Zayn1000

Zayn1000 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:12:18 +0000

OMG DUDE and your only running linux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow i congratulate you on that one…. i love your computer……..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: BC

BC — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:10:13 +0000

Should’ve bought some PS3s

By: Atlantis

Atlantis — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:14:55 +0000

I ask myself what power he might get if he overclocks those babys. I think he uses Intel Q6600 Quat Processors these can take a clockspeed up to 4 ghz. Just think about what calculation power he might get – maybe up to 50 Gflops!!!

By: Kulawend

Kulawend — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:01:30 +0000

29: I’m sure by ‘all night’ he means when he goes to bed it’s going, and when he wakes up it’s all done.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:25:38 +0000

I think the question here is…what are they using all that rendering power for?

Oh – and can anybody say F@H cluster?

By: DigitalMind

DigitalMind — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:48:21 +0000

Wow that’s kick ass .. I want to make one of those and then mount it on a pedestal that I will pray to every morning and night ! :)

By: Janne

Janne — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:38:02 +0000

Regarding FreenNAS. I used it because it’s so easy to use, and works with PC, mac and linux/unix. ..and free :) For a home server, you can get a fan-less VIA-luke nano itx card, with 2 sata ports. Get 2x 1TB drives and you have a very good, low cost zero noise home server. Intel have just released the atom chip, and Im realy eager to see it in real life.

By: Janne

Janne — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:14:34 +0000

Regarding PXE booting or any other network booting. I’m no tech guy, I just need cpu speed, and just did helmer the dumb-but-fast-and working way ;) …and a really wanted a local swap space in case a fill the memory.

By: RT (Panzer Time!)

RT (Panzer Time!) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:53:50 +0000

I can think of more than a few situations where this could come in handy.

By: Techyguru

Techyguru — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:48:58 +0000

That’s very nice.

Only a matter of time before we all have computers with 64Gb of ram and 24 cores but I want it now.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:38:47 +0000

Does this mean the SouperComputer lives one?
http://www.extremelinux.info/stonesoup/
But I'd have to be certain soupercomputer required much more than 400W of juice. The metal work alone must have taken a week of Sundays to do.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:23:57 +0000

Great idea and wonderful coincidence that this fits so smoothly into an Ikea file cabinet. Another issue is the PC-type hardware being used. I found standard-hardware to be not as reliable as it should be. With six of these boards fixing, debugging and administration can be quite a headache. I would spend some extra bucks to invest in server-hardware.

By: hb

hb — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:52:19 +0000

...
"Render jobs that took all night, now gets done in 10-12 min."

With only 6 computers, how does it get a perfomance boost factor of 40-50X?

Is it maybe comparing an apple to an orange?

"Render jobs that took all night (on a 1GHz Celeron), now gets done in 10-12 min."

By: Alex McCown

Alex McCown — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:39:36 +0000

lol i have the same ram sticks xD this is a nice and usefull device