Im still not convinced, bang for buck your going to get more clustering this junk than buying commodity hardware. Benchmarks at the ready.
Andy On 08/11/2007, Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:36 AM 11/8/2007, Peter St. John wrote: > >Recently, probably you noticed, Walmart began selling a $200 linux PC. > > See, e.g., http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/beowulf/walmart.htm from 2002 > > > > >(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 > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
