You're right, a lot of those 'clusters' are just theoretic clusters.
Those who are number crunching wouldn't ever think of buying
something else than quad cores as of now.
About some remark someone made that the c7 also supports encryption
bla bla, you gotta be careful there. For fun i had installed
bitlocker at a quadcore AMD numbercrunching machine, and the machine
is broken now, just after a few months.
Now of course i'm gonna get a lecture of RGB about why windoze sucks
even more than its blowup rate indicates and he'd be right about it
then,
yet my important remark here is that dropping a few things like sha1
etc is total useless, as when number crunching then encryption is a
thing you want to avoid at all costs.
For ISPs who want to encrypt at tcp/ip level i bet we aren't gonna
get any public info from them what their concerns is; i'd rather
guess that they all go for intel mobile cpu's anyway, lower power
states there definitely is important; it's only about power there.
Vincent
On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:03 PM, andrew holway wrote:
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
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