Got a 10k budget and storage to fold, lets build a farm.

[PZdunek]

Looking to build a cluster of folding monsters in my dorm room and my garage, my budget is 10k. Since i have no other use for the money i might as well contribute it to medical research.

 

Im very familiar with the bitcoin game and the requirements to become profitable but alas it just doesn't transcribe to folding. 

 

If you guys would build 5 dream folding machines, how would you guys do it? Network boot? Usb sticks? Gpus? Cpus? Need help people!

[Merlorz]

If you can't find any use for the money.. You could just give it to me

[FloRolf]

So, you can't find a way to spend 10k? ^^

 

Folding is awesome though.

If you don't care about energy costs either i'd get multiple small machines with crap CPUs and all GTX970s in them. They get ~200k ppd a day which is pretty good.

[tobben]

Well holy shit.. i would tell you to calm down but you probably

know your financial situation better than i do

 

what currency are we talking about here $? with that kind of

investment you would start running into some serious issues

with electricity cost and heat management.. your electricity 

prices are pretty important as that is going to make a serious

impact over 1-3 years.

 

i would fill up one or two rigs with 970's and be happy with that,

obviously have money for proper storage, might aswell get 

some cheapo hard-drives or ssd's instead of messing with

usb sticks, especially when gpu folding. 

 

The gpu's are what matters here, everything else is just

housing for them to function optimally without being 

restricted.

[OCing Noob]

Looking to build a cluster of folding monsters in my dorm room and my garage, my budget is 10k. Since i have no other use for the money i might as well contribute it to medical research.

 

Im very familiar with the bitcoin game and the requirements to become profitable but alas it just doesn't transcribe to folding. 

 

If you guys would build 5 dream folding machines, how would you guys do it? Network boot? Usb sticks? Gpus? Cpus? Need help people!

Spend 2K on your computer and build a better rig . 1K for upgrades and modification . leftover 7K go and donate to a orphan house where children really need it or spend it on any poor childs education as long as you can.

[christianled59]

Well, in a dorm room it will get very hot. Are you sure you want all of this in a dorm?

[Dude]

-snip-

-snip-

Folding is a distributed computing project for disease research which simulates protein folding, computational drug design amongst other things.

Edited February 20, 2015 by colonel_mortis

[Ceatra]

Buy some hores?

[PZdunek]

Spend 2K on your computer and build a better rig . 1K for upgrades and modification . leftover 7K go and donate to a orphan house where children really need it or spend it on any poor childs education as long as you can.

I have a 780 ti with an ivy bridge chip, won't be needing to upgrade that in the near future lol. 

[PZdunek]

Well holy shit.. i would tell you to calm down but you probably

know your financial situation better than i do

 

what currency are we talking about here $? with that kind of

investment you would start running into some serious issues

with electricity cost and heat management.. your electricity 

prices are pretty important as that is going to make a serious

impact over 1-3 years.

 

i would fill up one or two rigs with 970's and be happy with that,

obviously have money for proper storage, might aswell get 

some cheapo hard-drives or ssd's instead of messing with

usb sticks, especially when gpu folding. 

 

The gpu's are what matters here, everything else is just

housing for them to function optimally without being 

restricted.

I'm getting the gist of what you're talking about. I really wanna streamline the process though, network boot, usb disks? Matter fact i wanna help my entire dorm building fold. Gunna bring it up in the next hall council meeting. I'm not just giving the money away to a charity, I've made my decision. 

[Whaler_99]

Over on the [H]ard forum, I think I have the link in one of the stickies, they have instructions on making a folding appliance. Problem is, that it is ubuntu. CPU based folding back in the day. What you want to do now is Windows folding. Just as easy to buy a 60GB SSD drive, install Win7 Pro and you are done. 4GB of memory and a mobo with 3 PCIe x16 slots and three 970's... three or four of those boxes and you will be cranking out points. 

[PZdunek]

Over on the [H]ard forum, I think I have the link in one of the stickies, they have instructions on making a folding appliance. Problem is, that it is ubuntu. CPU based folding back in the day. What you want to do now is Windows folding. Just as easy to buy a 60GB SSD drive, install Win7 Pro and you are done. 4GB of memory and a mobo with 3 PCIe x16 slots and three 970's... three or four of those boxes and you will be cranking out points. 

You can't GPU fold on open source platforms? Trying to save money and avoid windows keys lol.

[Whaler_99]

You can't GPU fold on open source platforms? Trying to save money and avoid windows keys lol.

 

There is beta support for Folding on NVidia on Linux, but it is very beta and iffy...

[PZdunek]

There is beta support for Folding on NVidia on Linux, but it is very beta and iffy...

Damn, I would love it to support linux because remote management is much, much easier. But as soon as that happens, i'll swap out the os on the drives.

[GlassBomb]

I would suggest doing what both @tobben and @Whaler_99 mentioned. Build a couple of machines that hold three GTX 970's each.

[IMPERIUS]

Wow man, where do you get all that money from?

[Mummy84]

There is beta support for Folding on NVidia on Linux, but it is very beta and iffy...

Ahh, so thats why my rebuilded Second PC isnt helping so much on Folding. It runs HD 7970 and so far, points and speed are the problem

But then again it OS(distro what ever) is "Ubuntu" (for super easy install and Steam) and after Nokia sell im trying to, not to get any more M$ to my home, if i can help it