Hi Alan, >It was built about 2.5 years ago, the ram cost about $270. >But the timings are 7-7-7-20 at 1333mhz. Can you beat that? =P
Well done, but I don't think a few % faster are meaningful... As of buying the fastest CPU at the moment, if it's at the expense of the RAM, it doesn't make sense to me too - 8 or 24 GB more RAM with 10-20-30% slower CPU is way better, than the top CPU at the moment with 8 GB of the fastest RAM. Anything above 8GB make those timings useless - Windows alone eats 20-30% of those GBs for a breakfast, if you run a few browser windows, IDEs, other software, and 60-70% are gone. Work for a few hours or a day and there's no free physical RAM... OK for the age, that makes more sense, but still spending $2000 for a PC without upgrade possibilities? :X 8 GB now costs $40 or so. If the MB is 4x2 GB or just 2x4 (no more slots) - IMO that wasn't good choice upgrade-wise for such an expensive machine even then. But you can still change the module, if RAM is critical... Todor>> if I was to built a >> $2000 machine, it would be 3 or 4 PCs with ~ core i5 2500 - core i5 3470 >> or slightly cheaper ones, and 32 GB, or at least two with very powerful >> GPUs. >???? Yes, you could make it, if you question is it possible... :) You may not need monitors connected to all of them all the time, you may use also use cheap SH monitors for control displays/installation etc., and some may not have additional GPUs or may heave cheap ones ($60-100). Sample prices in Bulgaria, I guess in the USA it's is supposed to be cheaper(?): $1 ~ 1,50 BGN/lv CPU: 360 lv, i5 3470 RAM: 230 lv (115 lv x 2 (2x8 1600 x 2)) MB: 176 lv (4 slots DDR3, e.g. GB GA-Z77-DS3H s.1155) Case+PSU: 50 lv (460W) == 816 lv < $550 + 1 TB HDD == 936 lv < $630 + Linux (0 lv) >What kind of cluster operating system would you run? Could you use it as >some kind of NUMA desktop or would you have to code special MPI >applications for it? I don't have a home cluster yet, unfortunately. Of course I've wanted and I plan to build one, but I don't have ready solutions yet. As far as I plan it for now, I think it would be rather an MPI or a less connected custom environment, where different machines could be completely independent, and the communication won't be real-time critical/requiring GBs/s bandwith. It might be even simple sockets/TCP-IP with custom managing, since the nodes in this seed AI/SIGI/AGI architecture will be from the same framework. ....* Todor "Tosh" Arnaudov ....* * .... Twenkid Research:* http://research.twenkid.com .... *Self-Improving General Intelligence Conference*: http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-sigi-2012-1-first-sigi-agi.html *.... Todor Arnaudov's Researches Blog**: * http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
