Vincent, That's tough for me to answer, presumably the 1.5 is cheaper per hertz in power than a 3 GHz, but because of the other issues it may not be cheaper in GFLOPS per power. No hablo EE. Peter
On Nov 8, 2007 1:58 PM, Vincent Diepeveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a compute cluster wouldn't it be a thought to also consider the > cost of 3 years of nonstop electricity for the amount of gflops it > delivers? > > Vincent > > > On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:36 PM, 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? > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
