I did this post up on the GGP blog 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!