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Ok I can't link the front page, I'm on my phone, but seriously?!

Who is going to give this a try? It might be an alt durring summer and you have maxed your AC and you fuse pannel.
 
Here's the link for Kendrak.

The Cluster GPU instance includes "2 x NVIDIA Tesla 'Fermi' M2050 GPUs" in addition to the normal hardware. Any guesses on PPD?
 
The M2050 is the workstation version of the GTX470.
 
So we should see ~15k ppd depending on WU for each of the teslas. Then whatever ppd we can get on the other hardware.
 
Tobit said:
The M2050 is the workstation version of the GTX470.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I was just looking at the specs. Fanless, too. Looks like it might be a little faster than the 470.

Figure stock clocks so 12K x 2 = 24K PPD? (edit: maybe too low)

edit 2: CPUs are dual Xeon X5570s (quad core, 2.93GHz) -- that should produce some decent SMP points
 
It's not currently available for Windows, you'd have to run the client via WINE on Linux and at $2.10/hour.. I will pass.
 
Yeow!

Yeh even with 2 cards that will add up fast for modest ppd.
 
$2.10/hour = $50.40/day = $1512/month

Probably higher than the average electric bill. :eek: :eek:
 
wow... if my calculations are correct (as well as the above listed monthly cost)... I'd have to pull about 22 kilowatts average to get to that amount in electric bills (from what I found average cost here is 9.28 cents per kwh).

1512 ($/month) * 100 (cents/$) * 1/9.28 (kwh/cent) *1/30 (months/days) * 1/24 (days/hours) to get 22.629 kilowatts as average power draw. @_@

aka no thanks, I'd save the money by building a boxen an paying for the electricity (of course it would take a little time before said option would begin to save money due to initial investment). That amount of power could support a ridiculous farm, although I imagine I'd be tripping a breaker/burning my house down by doing so.
 
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Ehhh that comes to 184 amps and most new houses run 200 amp service....

The issue would be that you could not run:
Hair dryer... just use 9800GX2 cards!
Microwave... use an insanly OCed i7
Electric hot water heater... just water cool a loop of 4 GTX480s and run your morning shower off that.
Vaccume cleaner... it's ok you don't need to, the HSF sucked up all the dust already
Dishwasher... no need you can't afford food, you just paid the power bill ;)
 
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