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What is your ideal setup?
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Simple: Just check every Octo MP4,1 box at the highest level with 4 30" Apple Displays!
Dual 2.93GHz CPUs with 32GB of RAM, four ATi 4870 video cards, RAID 5...
I have a sneaky feeling that there can only be one answer to your query... maybe two, if people opt for nVidia instead...
IBM Roadrunner. Currently the fastest computer on the planet.
Internals:
- 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs
- 6,480 AMD Opteron dual-core processors
- Infiniband
- Linux
Photo.
You know everyone needs one of those in their office
You know everyone needs one of those in their office
I mean the question is always how well does it play WoW.
I could use more RAM, and probably faster drives. Otherwise I'm good.
Another display would be nice.
Though seriously… OP, what kind of answers did you expect? If anyone had an unlimited budget (apart from being crazy), they'd probably get the best of everything.
Absolutely.You know everyone needs one of those in their office
LMAO!
Exactly.
It wasn't limited to Macs, so the OP left the door wide open. 
How well does that load the pr0nz?IBM Roadrunner. Currently the fastest computer on the planet.
Internals:
- 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs
- 6,480 AMD Opteron dual-core processors
- Infiniband
- Linux
Photo.
Unfortunately pointless thread. Next thing we'll hear is that the extra 'h' was intended.
Don't forget the shiny new van needed to really make them portable.
I went for the "Super Sized" version with the IBM. Not portable, but who cares.
But I forgot to add in the building to house it. But I forgot to add in the building to house it.
And the electric plant to power it and it's A/C!
How does that help with a van though, if you truly want it portable?For my selection almost any American home can power the systems.
You'd need a rather substantial generator stuffed in the van too.
I'd buy a Mac Pro cheese grater case, and stuff it with faster non-apple used parts, as in, YES, I'D GO HACKINTOSH. Throw in some ridiculously fast RAM, the fastest i7 processor there is, liquid cooling, overclock the sucker, Dual 5870s, a plethora of SSD drives in RAID0 using a proper non-apple branded POS raid card, and a 2tb drive for storage in the secondary bay.
I'd pay top dollar to have the inside of a mac pro case get refitted for a better PC branded motherboard and better ram.
I'd pay someone to do this for me, money buys everything, right?
If I had the mac pro standard comp, i'd just load it with the fastest intel SSD's in RAID0, get some flashes 4890s in crossfire and accelero s1 cooling (silence!) and again a 2tb drive in the optical drive bay.
As for LCD, i wouldnt even bother with any of the lame apple 'cinema' displays. I'd get a proper Eizo S-IPS matte finish LCD monitor;
http://www.eizo.com/global/products/coloredge/cg301w/index.html
As you guys can see, the only thing worthwhile having in a mac, is the operating system itself, nothing else is made by apple.
I'd pay top dollar to have the inside of a mac pro case get refitted for a better PC branded motherboard and better ram.
I'd pay someone to do this for me, money buys everything, right?
If I had the mac pro standard comp, i'd just load it with the fastest intel SSD's in RAID0, get some flashes 4890s in crossfire and accelero s1 cooling (silence!) and again a 2tb drive in the optical drive bay.
As for LCD, i wouldnt even bother with any of the lame apple 'cinema' displays. I'd get a proper Eizo S-IPS matte finish LCD monitor;
http://www.eizo.com/global/products/coloredge/cg301w/index.html
As you guys can see, the only thing worthwhile having in a mac, is the operating system itself, nothing else is made by apple.
How does that help with a van though, if you truly want it portable?
You'd need a rather substantial generator stuffed in the van too.
Naw, I don't need it to be portable really. Just that design is very compact and low wattage. Excellent HW selection!
Take a look at the SGI Octane III. One of the versions uses up to 20 Xeon 55xx processors, and InfiniBand (DDR or QDR mode) all in a case that's small enough to sit on your desk (27.5 x 12.5" x 26.1)!
Product page, data sheet.
Lot's of power, in an itty bitty little space.
Unlimited Budget?
Umm.. How about build another supercomputer? Forget the 'mini cluster' thing... Build something much much much faster!!! And use more upto date technology.. Perhaps a few thousand's of the current, top of the range of Octo MacPro's with upgraded Nehalem x55 3.3Ghz processors and maxed out 32Gb RAM, replace all the mechanical HD's with super fast, high capacity 1Tb SSD's in RAID format... Use quad channel fibre to network the who lot together!?? Then once all that is done... hire some dude to come fit the air conditioning!!
Imagine what sort of data centre this could be... but no... this is just a machine for personal uses.
If you want to use an unlimited budget and start a system from scratch, go optical.
Of course you'd have to do years worth of work (materials & manufacturing on a large scale along with processor design, and maybe even gate work, if the CNOT gates turn out to be a bust), but what the heck.
Of course you'd have to do years worth of work (materials & manufacturing on a large scale along with processor design, and maybe even gate work, if the CNOT gates turn out to be a bust), but what the heck.