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From: Michael Di Domenico (mdidomenico4_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2008 - 15:29:41 CDT

Thanks, that's pretty much what i was looking for. I'm looking for a test
machine to learn cuda with and was curious what you had used for
MB/Processor.

Thanks
- Michael

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:25 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Sure, what do you want to know? We ordered the basic boxes from
> a local vendor and I put the rest of these system together myself.
> The motherboard is an Asus P5N32-E SLI, with an Intel QX6700 CPU,
> 8GB of memory, running RHEL4u5 with the 64-bit 2.6.9-55 SMP kernel.
> One of the test systems has the stock 800 watt PSU that came from
> our local vendor, I installed a 1200 watt Thermaltake PSU in
> the other one.
>
> Both PSUs work fine, but the 1200 watt PSU is much
> more convenient because it has six of the PCIe GPU power connectors,
> and three of them are the new 8-pin variety making it easy to test
> newer GPU cards. The one with the stock PSU runs fine, but I had
> to use a bunch of molex-to-PCIe power converter cables. Both test
> machines originally contained three GeForce 8800GTX GPUs, but most
> recently I'm now testing one of them with a mix of the the Tesla
> D870 (two GPUs) deskside unit, and I hope to test some of the newly
> announced cards sometime in the near future.
>
> At present these two test machines are just running CUDA tests and we
> aren't doing much visualization on them, but we have previously had
> them setup for running some very demanding VMD visualizations.
>
> If you have more questions, let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:04:59PM -0400, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> > Does anyone know if the full spec sheet for the Triple GPU test machine,
> > thats shown on the VMD webpages, exists?
> >
> > Thanks
> > - Michael
>
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