DIY Render Farm - 186GigaFlops

I did this post up [on the GGP blog](http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/25/186-gigaflops-in-a -chest-of-drawers/) a few minutes ago, but I wanted to pass it along to everyone here too in case (gasp!) you’re not a GGP subscriber [rss].  A guy put together a six-node render farm using nothing but raw components and a special diy case using… wait for it… wait for it… an Ikea cabinet.

This thing is a beast.  24 CPU Cores and 48GB of memory sure beats the hell out of the server I was planning to put in my basement.  I ran the numbers on the components he used and it looks like it would cost about C$6500.00.  Of that the funky Ikea case is less than 1% of the total.  Pretty spanky!  :)