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08-23-2007, 07:23 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kentucky Posts: 31,689
|  Desk Made Of Processors
Desk Made Of Processors
This has got to be one of the coolest desks ever. The desk is made out of hundreds of perfectly good Intel Itanium processors: In March 2007, a project to upgrade one of our customer's computers began. The upgrade took several weeks, with dozens of people working around the clock, resulting one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. Along the way several hundred Itanium CPUs, in perfect working order, were going to be scrapped. I figured I could find a better end for them than the scrap-yard.
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08-23-2007, 07:40 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: San Jose, California Posts: 2,452
| Re: Desk Made Of Processors
So those are actually working?
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08-23-2007, 07:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kentucky Posts: 31,689
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Thats what I got out of it
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08-23-2007, 08:11 PM
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MetalHead Techie Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,889
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how are they cooled?
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08-23-2007, 08:13 PM
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| Re: Desk Made Of Processors
nice.
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08-23-2007, 08:33 PM
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thats pretty sweet. he got a low end super computer for free..
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08-23-2007, 09:12 PM
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Banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,733
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are those itanuim or itanium2?
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08-23-2007, 09:12 PM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maine Posts: 3,682
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I don't think they're actually on, I think they just still work - as in, they're not fried chips. They were going to be thrown away but he used them for this instead.
At least thats what I get out of it...
Totally sick though.
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08-23-2007, 09:18 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 12,145
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That is just the uber pwning desk right there.
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08-23-2007, 10:59 PM
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Banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,733
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i'd be more impressed with a desk of dual core itanium 2's | |
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