FASTRA II official movie

Dr. Joost Batenburg takes us to the ASTRA-lab where he explains why we need a powerful desktop supercomputer, and the design ideas behind the FASTRA II system.

[minyoung]

Congratulations on the amazing project and thank you for taking the time to share with everybody else.

[jabcreations]

Five stars for cramming 13 GPU's in to a single case and all the awesome work you guys have done.

[magekiller]

amazing work, glad to see so much dedication and effort put into this. awesome awesome awesome.

[blokeish]

Excellent work guys. You guys are really thinking out of the box. Previously we could only think of teraflops in terms of computers that occupy large rooms with special cooling facilities.

[ghostrec]

Just added it to Stumble. Great video! I loved all of the silly funny things you put in to keep the video interesting.

[johnvanarnam]

You guys are legendary. Us folders have been waiting for a BIOS like this. Thanks again for your advice on 4 by 9800gx2 in 2008.
-Van_Arnam

[林智立]

the NEW fastra 3 ??? i can't waiting

[freeculture]

I like the beauty and simplicity of the FASTRA I. Have you guys considered simply upgrading the cards on the I, build a second FASTRA I and use them both? Then you could add a third, fourth and so on...

[DJownage]

1. The silicon on the 285 and 295 GTXs is designed to work until 110 degrees C.
2. That PSU has worked for them for over 1 year. So i don't know what you're getting at.
3. This is meant to be workstation. The risk of a water leak is totally unacceptable. It isn't meant to be a LAN show-off PC.
5. No other heatsink would fit under there, since the top cards are in the way. Also, the CPU isn't doing anything critical here, so cooling it isn't a top priority. The program only uses the GPUs.

[sCYTHe]

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[nrdesign]

Congratulations!
...But I still wonder how much power the system uses...

[ashinms]

I want those pci extension cables. PS... What is Euro to dollar conversion as of now?

[unfoldyourcfs]

@lopezp Probably youll just be playing on one GTX295, since they are not in sli or anything

[Miguelissimmo]

Hi guys, I've just watched your video about your Fastra II system .. It's really interesting what everybody can achieve these days with GPU computing ! I personnaly use my GTX 560 Ti to make some renders in Blender, it works so seemlessly ! I couldn't make raytraced renders with my CPU, it's way too slow ... I have a question about your system: why didn't you design a cluster system, with like 4 or 8 computers linked together via the network ? Is it a software issue ? Can't you distribute the rendering tasks between each computer ? It would be a bigger system physically, I know, but this way you could use standard motherboards, and standard (cheaper) PSUs, and of course have much more calculation power (and no limitation, if you need more power, just add another computer .. so very scalable) at a very reasonnable price ... Can you tell me why you didn't chose that solution ?

[MrNightLifeLover]

Nice, not to forget you also need to write custom software which can use multiple gpus efficiently.

[_Ted]

that settles it. these guys are awesome

[tyrengman]

Where is the latest fastra? will you build a fastra III Nvidia is releasing really nice chips nowadays. Greetings

[cameronbaker]

How are the card's working together??

[kadumourareal]

Congratulations

it rocks!!!!

where can i order mine? :-P

[devrerffs]

@kaede15 They will run in 8x pcie bandwith. This is enough for a single-gpu card to do real-time rendering, but not for a dual-gpu card. But however you will only loose like 5% performance when running a gpu on 4x pci express.

But btw! Why use the cards original thick coolers so that you have to use pci-e extenders?! You could just have used watercooling, so that the cards only take one slot each.