gHacks technology news » folding farm http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Guy Builds Folding Farm With 51 NVIDIA Video Cards http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/13/guy-builds-folding-farm-with-51-nvidia-video-cards/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/13/guy-builds-folding-farm-with-51-nvidia-video-cards/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:04:22 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6123 Folding@Home is a distributed computing project to better understand disease development and currently under supervision of Professor Vijay Pande at Stanford University’s chemistry department. Everyone can join with his computer donating free computer cycles to the project. To make it more competitive users can form groups that race, just like in an online game, for the top spot and the fame associated with it.

One guy seems to have decided that his team, which currently ranks 16th, could need a boost and build a server farm that combines 51 8800 series NVIDIA video cards and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which can hold four PCI video cards each.

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What do you think? Is that an overkill?

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