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nginx {"id":1931,"date":"2007-08-20T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/stiri\/matts-awesome-chip-desk\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T05:31:00","slug":"matts-awesome-chip-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/2007\/08\/20\/matts-awesome-chip-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt’s awesome chip desk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n

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What does one do 434 discarded Itanium CPUs? Matt Tovey<\/a> was inspired by our Chip Trivet<\/a>, and used them to make this awesome computer desk. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The CPU modules were scrapped<\/a> as the result of a supercomputer upgrade, and were presumably functional before having their heat sinks taken off– a herculean effort for that many CPUs! Matt says that the list price for the lot of chips was over US$800,000 in 2006 and that the desk contains about 2.8 TFLOPs of computing power, about the same as 900 3.2GHz P4s. Matt started with a plain desk<\/a>, tiled in<\/a> the CPUs, and added wooden edging and a beveled glass top. Nice work! <\/p>\n I just love the way that this desk looks. But it gives me an idea too– take it one step further, and what if it worked<\/i>? You could use a single, giant PCB<\/a> for the motherboard which sat underneath the glass surface of the desk. With that much area, you could fit in a lot of processing power. On the cheap (or moderately cheap), one could imagine instead filling the inside of a desk top with low-cost (even last-generation) PC motherboards to make a great looking beowulf cluster or render farm that doesn’t take up any desktop or rack-mount space. <\/p>\n Sadly, Matt’s page<\/a> has moved on to the great \/dev\/null in the sky, but the mirror<\/a> still shows some of the build photos.<\/p>\n via evilmadscientist.com<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What does one do 434 discarded Itanium CPUs? Matt Tovey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}