I've decided I want a dual quad core cuda machine. But I don't have $20,000

struggle4progress

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Sat Sep-19-09 05:38 PM
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I've decided I want a dual quad core cuda machine. But I don't have $20,000

to spare. So, naturally, I've decided to come grovel in the Lounge for donations

It would be a very nice machine, with two 2.93Ghz CPUs, 64GB 1333 ECC RAM, and four Nvidia Tesla cards so that I could compute at 4 teraflops while sitting on my fat ass at home

Anyone donating to this worthy effort will get, as a token of my appreciation, a valuable prize, such as a rare signed full-color glossy signed print of the machine!

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kentauros

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Sat Sep-19-09 05:44 PM
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1. What are you doing for monitors and printer?

Anything less than dual 24" monitors, a 12x18 Wacom tablet and an HP 48" plotter is wasted on that kind of computing power :D

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struggle4progress

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Sat Sep-19-09 05:58 PM
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2. Good point. I was gonna get the machine first, then come back whining to the Lounge

that I needed another $20,000 for peripherals

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kentauros

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Sat Sep-19-09 07:12 PM
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7. Then save the minimum $40k

and go with cloud computing for a really badass system and capabilities :D

Of course, all of your data will be on other computers, none of which are in your possession or control :P

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Xipe Totec

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Sat Sep-19-09 06:03 PM
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3. For 20K I can build you the machine, with peripherals

Let me know when you get to 20k, and I'll build you the system.

I will not charge you a penny over 20k.

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struggle4progress

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Sat Sep-19-09 06:52 PM
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5. Maybe we could eliminate the middle man. Instead of me raising money

to give to you so you could give me a kick-ass parallel desktop, maybe you could just give the parallel desktop and raise the money yourself? According to standard economic models, that would simplify the transaction and reduce costs

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Turbineguy

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Sat Sep-19-09 06:49 PM
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4. What ever happened to

"the computer you want costs 5 grand"?

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struggle4progress

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Sat Sep-19-09 07:11 PM
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6. The first time I ever wanted a computer that cost five grand was decades ago:

this summer, $250 got me a much much better machine than that first fantasy. So maybe a quarter century from now, I'll be able to pick up a multiprocessor 5 teraflop machine with over 50gb memory for $1000. But I'm afraid that by then the machine I'll want is gonna be $100,000 or so

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rcrush

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Sat Sep-19-09 07:22 PM
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8. In two months windows will slow that thing to a crawl

No PC is safe!

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struggle4progress

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Sat Sep-19-09 10:16 PM
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9. I don't think I'll be putting windows on another machine any time soon

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