Green Giant - Hardware Estimates
On the upshot the concept I have in mind will allow for nodes to be added dynamically.
Anyway onto the “beancounting”
GA-G33M-DSR2 £65.56 (ebuyer)
Corsair 4GB DDR2(800mhz) £65.35 x 2 (£130.7)
Intel core 2 quad Q6600 Energy Efficent 95w 2.4GZ 8mb L2 (4mb per core pair) £126.99
Total: £323.25
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Example config:
5 Nodes
20 Cpu cores
48 GHZ
40GB Ram
150 Gflops (estimated)
£1616.25 Total
£33.67 / Ghz
£10.78/Gflop/s
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Quite a considerable “chunk” of change, anyone any ideas as to cheaper suppliers? my Prices are based on the ebuyer.co.uk costs at the time of writing.
For US readers £1616.25 @ £1:$1.9432 = $3140.697 total = $628.14 / node
Update based on my previous spec here
“Not draw more than a total 30w / GHZ under load (Bringing the 4 node total to just 120w)”
Based on the current estimated 400w @ 48GHZ = 8.33w / GHZ (Well under target) …
We shall see what the actuall power consumption is once I find an alternate supplier.