I know I'm frugal but

[Biciclista]

yeah i want to know what is so special about your new computer ??
congrats anyway.

[smilingcat]

geekoid fact sheet:

dual xeon westmere processors with 6 cores each hyper thread enabled of course.

48G 1333Mhz DDR3 registered + ECC
Have enough memory socket to get to nearly 200G of DDR3 main memory.

4 slots of PCIe 2.0 x16 + other PCIe slot
1Tbyte of RAID 1E with 6Gb/Sec SATA (hot swappable drives only 4 installed)
150G SATA 6G/Sec HD for the OS

currently have a Nvidia graphics card with Fermi to run Cuda and Open CL. This is to be replaced by Tesla C2050 or C2070 when the Nvidia GPU's are found compatible with the system. Looks like it is.

dual 1400W power supply also hot swappable
two channels of 1Gb/sec Ethernet
about 10 USB channels of which 2 or 4 are USB3.
The system is considered a very high end enterprise grade. Can fit on a std rack as a 4U box. the system weighs over 100 pounds right now.

Speed of the system is rated as a 24th fastest for intel or amd based computer. This is the front end computer. Back end will be the Tesla C2050 GPU based super computer. typical home computer may do 2 billion floating point calculations per sec, 2Gflops. My eventual system will do nearly 1 thousand billion floating point calculations at twice the precision 1Tflop. The performance level puts in a class of super computer or high performance computing HPC.

The computer will be connected to a two UPS/power conditioner.
Total cost when I am finished with the upgrade will be enough to buy a brand new car.

My last computer was a very high end at the time. That is why it managed to last so long. When Redhat 4.0 came out I tried it and wasn't too thrilled with 4.0.

I have a need for this kind of performance to run engineering software. It's not for photoshop, gaming.