Take an Ikea Helmer steel cabinet for $40, and turn it into a massive Beowolf cabinet.
Freelance animator Janne needed a cheap way to do a whole lot of CPU-intensive 3D rendering, so he built a Linux cluster into an Ikea filing cabinet to get the job done.
DIY Filing Cabinet Server Cluster from LifeHacker
3D computer rendering are very CPU intensive and the best way so speed up slow render problems, are usually to distribute them on to more computers. Render farms are usually very large, expensive and run using ALLOT of energy. I wanted to build something that could be put in my home, not make too much noise and run using very little energy... and be dirt cheep, big problem? :) no computer stuff cost almost nothing these days, it just a matter of finding fun stuff to play with.I wanted to use Intel Quad core 65 nm or better. I surfed the web and found 6 of then at a good price. Then I looked after the cheapest motherboard that could run these. The result of my investigation was the Gigabyte S-series GA-G33M-DS2R/S2 card.
Building a Home Linux Render Cluster Quote: Janne
Glen
PS. I do not "have a render farm." Though, I would like to build a small one, some day. (Running more than 3 computers is tricky. The power will trip, just one Server, for me.)
