Thank You for the detailed answer, it's really educational. I've been reading Atom's description today on tom's hardware, and there it's also described in the way You have described it.
I was thinking about using RAID because I was worried about backup space and speed for data transfer on the hard disk since there's a lot of data to be stored - about 1GB for a case with 175 000 finite volumes case. Now that I'm more informed I think I'll listen to You and Mr. John Hearns and go with standard issue CPUs and mboards and, besides that, whatever forgotten attic/basement hardware I can get my hands on from my friends. Well, as I've said - I don't really know much, yet. I can only hope for patience with my newbish questions/statements, like the one regarding the power consumption for the miniITX - if it's PSU can give out 90 Wats, that doesn't mean it will be spent. :) Thanks again, Tomislav _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
