Illinois students build 33 teraflop cluster from GPUs

[S1YAM]

but.... will it blend?

[PortalAnim]

This is why collage cost so much :/

[c4pt1n54n0]

@PortalAnim makbe if you went there you could spell it

[TheRealDutchOwner]

@c4pt1n54n0, Says the guy who can't spell maybe... Oh the irony...

[argh523]

If the goal is a GPU cluster, I wonder why they didn't use SLI.

[HippehMac]

@argh523 They're not actually GPUs, as such. Not mainstream ones, at least. They are nVidia's Tesla units, and I don't think it's possible to 'SLI' them.

[drey27]

100000000 rasberry pi would be cheaper and better?

[HippehMac]

@drey27 And a damn sight more annoying to set up.

[tehpanda64100]

but how well does it play mine sweeper?

[25penguin25]

Can it handle Minecraft in HD? I didn't think so...

[charlessmileyvideo]

They are not learning anything just using other people's circuit boards.

It's no different than building a brick wall out of bricks. Not one of them could design those boards or even understand the schematics. Sorry - not impressed much.

[sanity599]

@charlessmileyvideo I agree. They unbox some MBs and stick video cards in them. Then use a standard tool kit to make a cluster and use tools from Nvidia to access the GPU and they are done. I don't know if they wrote a programming language to make it easier to use this room heater. That would impress me.

[charlessmileyvideo]

@sanity599 Honeywell makes some nice thermostatic controls they could integrate into an ISR if it gets too warm maybe :)

[legofans452]

With this setup, you could h4xx0r Minecraft to have so much draw distance, you could go to the Farlands, and see the other end of the Farlands. You'd need a 10008000p monitor, though. But apperenlty that's not a problem.

[theoverclockmonster]

but it still lags on minecraft

[HDmoneyblox10]

@theoverclockmonster damn my computer is better than a supercomputer that means :D thanks for the compliment, never knew they made super super laptops until now :D :D :D

[Markitos203]

my lil bro could go to the nvidia site and build one.. wow

[MedQ]

go ESD go! :)

[bluntandkronic]

This music is atrocious

[bro918]

So uh, can anyone tell me what a flop is?

[charlessmileyvideo]

@bro918 It means "Floating-point operation". Most high-order functions consist of calculations that contain a huge number of coefficients that describe functions and they are needed to multiply large arrays of data values. Flops make that faster and easier by standardizing the data as well as the calculation itself. Things like artillery ballistic tables for multiple variables used to take years to calculate by hand but now only take seconds.

[TheReecedogCP]

Finally something to Play Minecraft with No lag ;O

[BeezDuL]

@TheReecedogCP lolno

[fft81]

and 6 months later 2x6990s gave me 11TFLOPS...

[aterack833]

still a better love story than twilight

[DeletedOD]

No ESD straps or mats :| maybe they need to go back to basics.

[thatguynick]

Can I play Angry Birds and Bejeweled Blitz on it?

[datafreak667]

This wasn't build from GPUs but from clustering full motherboard computers.

[snip3d0505]

Cable Management required! *shudder!*

[Greendogo]

Catsplosion still kills it, apply ample amounts of magma.

[Tab54o]

Not even wearing wrist straps!!!

[mardlinator]

one NVidia 590GTX is 4 teraflops, so this isnt that fast

[zumerian]

"Keyboard error"

[0mGiTzFrAAnK]

Will it run terraria

[Player1070]

omg and intel put 1 teraflop into a micro chip with @66watts.

and your construction looks like the Z3 only with more power xDDDDD

[LOLfilms100]

And of course teraflop means who's going to pay for this crap

[c0smicRay]

Can you imagine bitcoin mining with that thing?!?

[seanhamson]

@EkkoGaming they don't need em with that power they could simulate some, lol

[ronaldoalvesdeabreu]

Thoose professors are among the most renowned researchers of Nvidia CUDA.

[kmoss1122]

so how much memory does this supercomputer have?

[EpiTr3]

I take one for free

[xhcxjoex]

forever alone 0:10

[plugzter]

This is my Bitcoin Mining Rig :)

[thedevo01]

@plugzter lol good luck with it! It would produce about 300Mh/s.

Seriously. I'm not saying ATi is better, I am an nVidia loyalist myself, but ATi's structure is simply more ideal for BTC. My 590 produces about 40MH/s while my HD 5850 produces 310Mh/s OC'd.

[kallisti05]

@plugzter what a waste of money, AMD is 100x better doing compute.

[MrChriss1337]

Power Consumption Level: Over 9000

[peterxxmeme]

I could do that in less then a day :P

[5irR4p70r]

That's one hell of an Extra Credit project. :)

[tringuyen552911]

You should put this beast to folding@home :-)

[ihos501]

each tesla is 4k?

[djay2rapstar]

But, will it blend!

[TheEpiphan3]

@djay2rapstar - It is a good idea to Microwave a djay2rapstar. YES

[billynightmare]

new wind tunnel?

[RogerDodgerProduxonz]

BUT CAN IT RUN NOTEPAD?

[R3Cat]

LOL ths music is stolen from the theme music of/for frozzd (a game)

[FunkyDeeMusic]

I want one of these at my home, lol.

[trancemaster1996]

that is Maxishne's next project -_-

[darrenbennett44]

@trancemaster1996 haha, imagine the unboxing maxishine would go through. "really nice packaging on these"

[1jAwwA]

Send me some cool stuff from there, please? :3

[bogdanello]

NOOOO Why not just put togather 2 comps, each with 4 5970's, and then presto, a computer with more teraflops than the whole cluster!

[AhmedFromKSA]

there are 2 cards on each of the MOBOs one tesla and the other ?

[onesingleatom]

Dream project!

[pzabkiewicz]

you forgot that if you put two nVidia GPUs together you get only 30% faster graphic acceleration.. the weak point of that solution is communication between cards... only ATI Radeon and CrossFire technology makes 100% of both cards connected... but amount of cables will be derastic

[PepperNigger]

@pzabkiewicz LOL NOPE. By the way I run a 6950, ran crossfire 4850s before this. I only gained 60-75%. Other Nvidia cards of the same era gained about the same amount. Cards (ALL cards, ALL chip manufacturers) gain about 80 - 95%

..

And these dont run in SLI, so it isn't like when you play games anyways. Every card does their own process, doing their own calculation, and report back to the main calculation.

..

Imagine a big pie and each card eats a small piece of pie, eventually the pie is gone.

[pzabkiewicz]

@PepperNigger Ok I agree. I'm a computer programer and wondering how to communicate these cards if you don't have bridge like SLI or CrossFire.. you have to use ethernet connection and that is.. for sure.. slowest option.. GPU can process complicated calculations fast but returning results to main process will take ages.. I'm new to all this

[VediVeniVincent]

@pzabkiewicz

SIMD cards; so probably just good for number crunching with not a whole lot of data as a result. Every computer in that cluster needs an OS, so it's probably some microkernel thing where each node at least runs a dediated task server.

I'm guessing that the IPC between GPU and and CPU/RAM is just local, and the results of the computations being send to a 'main node' whenever the GPU is crunching, which should be possible.

[drolandcorp]

@VediVeniVincent or its a linux kernel with a netboot option

[helzaca1]

but will it bland

[MTomsi]

too much money?

[RefluxEntertainment]

I wanna haz it :o

[PompousPreacher]

The reason why college tuition is $85,000 per year is because they have students doing things they don't need to do and the school won't use like buying thousands of high-end graphic cards to build a supercomputer, which will be taken apart for the "next class" but by then the GPUs will be obsolete and they'll just buy better ones.

[thiennguyenX2]

@PompousPreacher Really...

Is that why the government used 1,700 PS3s to build their supercomputers for data analysis?

Also, this is academia, there is massive need for processing power for countless kinds of research. Innovative and extremely cheap ideas like this (adopted by the government) is exactly what colleges need.

Lastly, the only colleges charging 85k a year are those ivy leagues that only charge that much to keep the poor non-scholarship masses out, they don't learn shit.

[MystifiedCelery]

these are all computational cards.

they don't output video

[TutorialsByKevin]

When i saw the first 9 seconds of the video i wass like, THIS GONNA BE BIG.

[IJustMadeAComment]

But can it run Crysis 2? haha

[rxlaw11]

what a phenomenal waste of money. hope that wasn't funded by a federal grant

[JVpictures]

lol at the guy who just gets to open all the boxes

[mitchnesbitt]

but will it blend?

[tictac3d]

OMG I'll finally be able to play minecraft without lag!!!!!!

[ololh4xx]

it appears you dont eveb know what "lag" actually means

[tckotb]

@tictac3d Cant play minecraft with it, these cards neither support Open GL or DirectX

[f1r31c3r1]

@tckotb They support openCL which works with openGL so with a bit of tweaking yes you can

[f1r31c3r1]

@tictac3d naaa you will still lag, darn Internet connections suck lol

[datafreak667]

@tictac3d That sill depend on you network speed.

[Minokeni]

and now? play minecraft!

[Manny32V]

i wish i had access to this for a week of folding at home.

[ParadoxPerspective]

I bet they did it to play Crysis.

[mahchymk93]

misleading title: "Illinois students assemble 12 computers"

[BlueNem0]

are they even connected together? like execute 324354354 processes in one go or something? it looks like a bunch of motherboards laid next to each other.

[coolmanris]

Lets play COD at 999999 fps on it!!!

[SpeedoJoe]

No heatsinks on the RAM?

[zioboby]

Wow! Can it run Minewsweeper?

[zacolique1]

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[zacolique1]

wath is a 33 teraflop cluster

[ref5aat]

what is teraflop cluster ?

[noreplyism]

And what do you use it for? Cracking the MD5s ;-)

[101111101101]

so expensive. how did they get the funding for this?

[09kesler]

So.... bout global warming.....

[TheSwanies]

How are they connected together?

[aelitasweet]

@TheSwanies you can use LAN wire..

[iEugene1994]

@TheSwanies There is a motherboard with CPU and RAM for every videocard . They probably connected with 8P8C .

[TheSwanies]

@iEugene1994 How? Do they need custom software for making them cooperate?

[iEugene1994]

@TheSwanies Every body can build his own cluster using server version of OS , like Windows 2008 , Ubuntu Server , etc .

[TheSwanies]

@iEugene1994 Software. Not Operating system. How did they make them cooperate?

[iEugene1994]

@TheSwanies This is standart feature of the server op. systems ,computers are connected in LAN with cat cables , you can find right options in network settings .

[geckoboy222]

@TheSwanies by things that connect things to other things

[coolrecep]

@TheSwanies Over ethernet via load distrbution software.

[matjuhh96vh]

@TheSwanies SLI

[AhmedFromKSA]

@TheSwanies ALIANS

[misterpc23]

@TheSwanies They are all a bunch of desktops connected through switches and routers and what not.

[wrathallll]

@TheSwanies magic son.....magic!!

[wrathallll]

@wrathallll seriously tho....i wanna know

[fl0r1svdk]

@TheSwanies network

[quasarvega]

@TheSwanies /watch?v=RSf9aEETnvE

[Hyrdopowned]

@TheSwanies Most likely via ethernet cable.

[devan12100]

@TheSwanies We hadn't quite finished them by the time the last pic was taken, but we just used simple ethernet (Gb)

[Rubdos]

@TheSwanies Wooden planks. Don't you see ^^

[koeficientas]

@TheSwanies via 1-wire interface :)

[tristaNINchains]

@TheSwanies Telekinesis

[MrChubib0]

waste of money!!! i hate to watch videos like this

[AddColorsToYourLife]

cool but not ground breaking, i still appreciate the 100PS3 cluster computer more

[cellphonelightsaber]

Umm... Specs? Hardware list? OS? What a pointless video.

[phephq]

incredibly unimpressive

[Alias828]

The computer engineers did all the hard stuff it seems. They didn't do the hard stuff lol.

[bountykiller91]

Why this?

[aigora90]

какие-то бородатые студенты у вас в иллиноисе...

[onlyreallifematters]

@evilhomer6 glhf, not as well as the same number of 580's, tesla cards are made for math and physics, not graphics boosting

[ingimarsi]

@evilhomer6 Crysis? This thing could run the MATRIX!!!

[kiyotewolf]

with guidance from Obi Wen-mei Hwu Kenobi

[dinnerandashow]

Bad design. It would have a much better power to teraflop ratio if they used a low power cpu and multiple GPUs per board.

[nrasandun3]

It is an energy hunger.

[AFullThrottleRacingM]

Probably would have been 100 teraflops if they would have used the money and bought amd/ati

[SpazmoSoldier]

Are you kidding me? All that HW but no casings? :/

[eNeRGySers]

@evilhomer6 Sure! Max graphics!

[KapriJohn]

Well... I don't know what it does or what it's meant to be, but it looks cool and expensive! *thumbs up*

[Hamzafarrukh]

imagine the noise coming from those fans at 100%

[HELLHamster16]

@hateWinVista lol i dont think you get the idea of that insult

[SpahSappinMahSentry1]

BUT CAN IT RUN MINECRAFT?

[uploadJ]

... LOVE the use of anti-static safeguards! The anti-static mats, the wrist straps worn by the techs/engs, the ion fans ...

Oh wait .. didn't see any of those.

Interesting video in any case! Thanks team.

.

[antonmorvolhert]

@uploadJ Wait, you need to use those? xD

[nekononora]

So...they had a lot of money and linux?

[TheAndroidNerd]

@evilhomer6 yes sir, im pretty sure it will run crysis at any resolution at max settings, and will get upwards of 700fps or more... :)

[TheAndroidNerd]

so can I run tetris, ive been trying to get it going for years... ;) ;) jk jk

[kinsi55]

R.I.P. wall socket

[enayes21]

Now that's a rig that can run crysis

[Billionaireben]

This is a super computer? What can it do that a regular computer cannot. I think it is a computer on steroids. Mr. Olympia isnt exactly superman.

[the777brian]

o.o and the point for this contrapsion is?

[Ayoubsss]

Just wait until quantum computers get stable ..

[HFCOILCOMPANY]

One of the most valuable things we can do in business is model everyday mechanical and financial processes in real time and produce an accurate graphical representation of the business.

Then we can look in real time what the affects of changing sequential variables might have on the success or failure of the system.

Coupling the computing power of graphic cards with CPU's will allow us to model very large and very complex data sets much faster and with much more accuracy.

[exsterenpro]

I don't have money! Not even for the box!

[zeromant80]

Will it blend?

[mrmactknife]

Nice video, but no 3dmark scores!?? = FAIL lmao

[Kurby2001]

WHY MAN...WHYYYYYYYYYYY!!!????

[123Jus1]

WIll it blend?

[ProjectDv2]

You, gentlemen, have built a thing of great beauty. I am humbled. I also want some of your cast-offs if you have a budget of this size, as I do not.

[ProjectDv2]

@evilhomer6 Sure, with minimal chop, even!

[mbaraga2004]

That's great.I would like to build my own too,any tips from you guys?

I am a student in micro electronics

[Bramsky]

why cant wo do this in my university :-(

[TitanaMaster]

oh my... the last installation photo is over a petaflop!!! a single tesla can do more than a teraflop, I think... There I see over 144 fans, so over 144 motherboards, so over 144 gpus (or even more if there are more in the depth axis).

This should be over a big 144+ teraflop/s. Correcting tha petaflop!

[gingerdude9876543]

But will it blend?

[adolphbot]

@evilhomer6 will it run vista?

[MadeinHell2]

I came.