> lsi wrote: >> Cute, but my question is, what use is one of these homegrown platforms?
How about education, outreach and training? There are at least a couple of projects [1] that use small, home-built clusters in e.g. for undergraduate CS education, faculty education/re-training for parallel programming and cluster computing, and the like. Microsoft [2] and others have also used platforms like this to explore low-power, on-demand compute platforms. charlie [1] MicroWulf, LittleFe [2] http://www.greenm3.com/2009/02/microsoft-research-builds-intel-atom-servers.html _______________________________________________ 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
