On Wednesday 27 September 2006 5:10 am, Angel Dimitrov wrote: > Is there many clients for processor time? As I saw the biggest > supercomputers in the World are very busy! I'm wondering if it's > worthwhile to setup a commercial cluster. Intel are planning for new > processors - two CPUs each with quad cores. Two such machines will > have power like one 50 GHz CPU:-)
A couple of companies have tried it, no one seems to make a go of it. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/25/sun_grid_slip/ I don't know if anything has changed since then over the last year.. -- Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/ Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
