At 10:39 AM 11/8/2007, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Peter St. John wrote:
Recently, probably you noticed, Walmart began selling a $200 linux PC.
(Apparently the OS is just Ubuntu 7.10 with a small xindow manager
instead of Gnome or KDE). Now Slashdot points to
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5305482907.html, the MB being sold
separately for $60 ("development board"). It has 1.5GHz CPU,
unpopulated memory (slots for 2GB), one 10/100 connection. Does this
look to y'all like fair FLOPS/$ for a kitchen project? I'm thinking 6
of them as compute nodes per 8 port router, with a bigger head node
for fileserving. (actually I'll use a spare room but you know what I
mean). An arrangement like this might be faster RAM access per core,
compared to multicore, since each core has no competition for is't own
memory, right?
Well by now you surely have heard the YMMV litany enough times not to
hear it again from me, but YMMV quite a bit here so let me indicate a
few potential difficulties.
a) For this money, I'm guessing the CPU is a 32 bit Celery, which has a
very small L2.
More likely a Via CPU of some sort.
Jim
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