While ordering a replacement power supply for one of my machines I decided to add a Windows 7 to the shopping cart.
This was in no small part prompted by the NVidia parallel nsight addin for visual studio which would not work on my XP machines. An additional contributing factor was the lack of SP3 for Windows XP Pro x64. Of course the new office 2010 will only run on XP SP3, Vista and Windows 7.
Having had a brief and scary encounter with Windows Vista I am pleasantly surprised with the new version of Windows. Microsoft have done a good job with this one.
The installation process had to be a "clean" one as there is no upgrade path from winXP x64. I took a full backup of my "ComputeCube" machine and without bothering to format the C drive just popped the DVD in and rebooted.
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Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Compute Cube
In a previous post I mentioned fitting my Tesla C1060 onto my aging Asus motherboard. It has been working well but a combination of slow host<->device transfers speeds of less than 1GB/s, 2GB ram and a relatively slow processor encouraged me to upgrade.
Some of the prerequisites for my new personal super computer were:
a) Must be small - my desk area is limited and I don't like putting computers on the floor where they consume dust better than any known vacuum cleaner...
b) Must have at least 2x pci express 2 (gen 2) slots as for decent GPU computing you need to get data in and out of the device as quickly as possible.
c) As quiet and cool as possible.
As it turns out the last one was the most tricky and needed the C1060 to do a bit of CFD for the airflow in the case.
After a lot of research, measurement and two days of building here are some pictures of the final result. The case is only 11" x 11" x 14" - ok it's not Exactly a cube.... but close enough :) The tape measure in the photos is to give some sense of scale.
Many thanks to NVidia who very kindly sent me two NVidia Tesla logos for me to stick onto the case!
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Some of the prerequisites for my new personal super computer were:
a) Must be small - my desk area is limited and I don't like putting computers on the floor where they consume dust better than any known vacuum cleaner...
b) Must have at least 2x pci express 2 (gen 2) slots as for decent GPU computing you need to get data in and out of the device as quickly as possible.
c) As quiet and cool as possible.
As it turns out the last one was the most tricky and needed the C1060 to do a bit of CFD for the airflow in the case.
After a lot of research, measurement and two days of building here are some pictures of the final result. The case is only 11" x 11" x 14" - ok it's not Exactly a cube.... but close enough :) The tape measure in the photos is to give some sense of scale.
Many thanks to NVidia who very kindly sent me two NVidia Tesla logos for me to stick onto the case!
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