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I've been noticing FirePro S9170/S9150 GPU's showing up on eBay for ~200 USD and am wondering if there's any way to repurpose these for distributed compute?
These look to be fully-enabled Hawaii GPU's with unlocked FP64 with 16GB (S9150) and 32GB (S9170) VRAM. I know the VRAM is probably wasted on projects like Milkyway but is it possible to use these in a second-hand BOINC rig? 2.619 TFLOPS (1:2) FP64 compared to the ~840 GFLOPS on my Vega 64. Nothing to sneeze at.
Considerations:
1) There doesn't seem to be an display connector on any of these cards. If I used a RX 460 I have lying around as primary would BOINC recognize a S9170 connected elsewhere in the system and use it for compute?
2) I did a quick Sketchup model and it looks like I could mount 2x 40mm server fans (high RPM) on the rear of each for "blow through" cooling. Could be a fun project - assuming they would work with BOINC.
3) The Firepro workstation version of these cards (W8100 and W9100) are still much too expensive to be worth it.
Thanks
AMD FirePro S9170 Specs
AMD Hawaii, 930 MHz, 2816 Cores, 176 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 32768 MB GDDR5, 1250 MHz, 512 bit
www.techpowerup.com
These look to be fully-enabled Hawaii GPU's with unlocked FP64 with 16GB (S9150) and 32GB (S9170) VRAM. I know the VRAM is probably wasted on projects like Milkyway but is it possible to use these in a second-hand BOINC rig? 2.619 TFLOPS (1:2) FP64 compared to the ~840 GFLOPS on my Vega 64. Nothing to sneeze at.
Considerations:
1) There doesn't seem to be an display connector on any of these cards. If I used a RX 460 I have lying around as primary would BOINC recognize a S9170 connected elsewhere in the system and use it for compute?
2) I did a quick Sketchup model and it looks like I could mount 2x 40mm server fans (high RPM) on the rear of each for "blow through" cooling. Could be a fun project - assuming they would work with BOINC.
3) The Firepro workstation version of these cards (W8100 and W9100) are still much too expensive to be worth it.
Thanks