Patriot: We Built a 40 SSD Drive Crazy Computer

[exfileme]

Patriot is showcasing the "world's fastest PC" at CeBIT 2010.

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[alvine]

i wonder how much it all cost!

 

[Guest]

If I gave them 5 dollars, do you think they would let me have it?

 

[microterf]

Crazy stupid fast.
Love It.

Right after I can afford a drive setup like this, FERMI should be available for actual purchase and life will be good

 

[kelfen]

I can buy a corvete for the amount of sdd's that are in that case

 

[skykaptain]

"- (1) LSI Mega RAID SAS/SATA 9260-8i raid cards," shouldn't that be 5 as you say here, "forty 256GB TorqX SSDs connected to five LSI SAS PCI-E controllers."

 

[rhino13]

Yea... but can it run... [Insert stoneage game here]

No = Fail

 

[Doomsy2006]

Can we say Ultimate *Contest* Prize!

 

[zelannii]

So, give or take $50K, maybe 60? but only 10TB of storage in RAID 0, or 2.5TB in RAID 1/0. 150,000 IOPS can be achieved for less per TB with even basic SAN architectures, and they're far more redundant.

A nice achievement for a PC tower, but not something I believe to be taken seriously. I can't begin to imagine a use case for that many IOPS on that little storage that would run under those 2 CPUs (or 20 of them)...

I must admire the cabling detail though...

 

[traken]

Why?...

 

[envolva]

I love the "everything you can fit inside the case" kind of deal.

 

[anamaniac]

That's A LOT of cables.
It would have been fun to see it with only 2 GB of RAM, and another 100GB of virtual RAM.
Each SDD cost $750.
Each DIMM costs $155.
Each CPU costs $1000.
The motherboard costs $450.
Each PSU costs $180.
Each RAID card costs $500.
I can't say the costs for the case or that last expansion card however.

(40)700+(12)155+(2)1000+450+(2)180+(5)500= $35170
This is only taking the core components into question. That's a damned expensive system. I want.

 

[Guest]

Techpower up said it cost around $60,000

 

[eklipz330]

I just came back from the future with kevin, and it turns out, this wont be fastest in a few weeks.

 

[Guest]

- 48GB 1333MHz of Patriot DDR3 ECC-Registered memory (12) PS34G13ER-
Forget the virual RAM, heck, forget the SSDs. Just load up windows onto a virtual drive in memory! Just don't unplug the power :0/

 

[enzo matrix]

[citation][nom]Article[/nom]- 48GB 1333MHz of Patriot DDR3 ECC-Registered memory (12) PS34G13ER-E [/citation]
Two other sources claim 96GB of memory not 48GB
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/14386/patriot_claim_to_have_built_fastest_pc_in_the_world/index.html
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/systems-news/patriot-displays-fastest-system-planet/

Where did you get the 48GB number from?

 

[mados123]

Now if you could combine the transfer rate of this with the computing power of the FASTRA II (13 GPU's, 12 trillion operations per second!), that would be insane!

 

[redplanet_returns]

what i'm more amazed about is how they managed to fit them all in a tower while keeping it clean inside the case. that's 2 cables per drive (power/sata) = 80 cables running around just for the drives alone!

 

[HavoCnMe]

So what was the purpose of this? You would think they would be braging about beating the world record....but that's not the case. So is this just a pretty picture of what could of been a beast of a machine? JMO

 

[thegreathuntingdolphin]

Where did you get the 48GB number from?

If it did indeed use Patriot PS34G13ER-E Memory, it would be 48GB (12 x 4 GB).

 

[belardo]

Will it... could it... play...


CRYSIS?

 

[mlopinto2k1]

"HONEEEEY! WHAT ARE WE HAVING FOR DINNER TONIGHT!?", Spaghetti and SSD's.

 

[Guest]

The power supply pictured is not a thermaltake, it's an antec 1000w ps

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]Calihan[/nom]If I gave them 5 dollars, do you think they would let me have it?[/citation]
It's worth a shot, but just letting you know you show up with 5 I will show up with 10

 

[coonday]

I wonder how long it will be before this kind of speed becomes mainstream. 10-20 years maybe?