Re: [Beowulf] FY;) the Helmer cluster

Nah if you just want to run 1 application at 4 pflop that should be no problem to design some special hardware for it for $0.9M Vincent On Oct 5, 2008, at 10:41 PM, Igor Kozin wrote: lol the guy surely is very ambitious - 4 PFLOPS for $0.9M http://helmer3.sfe.se/ 2008/10/5 Eugen Leitl <[

Re: [Beowulf] FY;) the Helmer cluster

Igor Kozin wrote: lol the guy surely is very ambitious - 4 PFLOPS for $0.9M http://helmer3.sfe.se/ LOL, I say we put it up at my cottage, electricity is cheap in Quebec and we have a massive lake besides it :) /me bypasses exit heat to warm up house. Now, doesn't anyone seem to recognize a

[Beowulf] Re: Accelerator for data compressing

And Greg Lindahl writes: > I often find that floating-point data doesn't compress much, but that > ASCII representations of the same data compresses to a file smaller > than the binary one. However, some care is necessary if you're using decimal output rather than hex. I've run into problems with

Re: [Beowulf] FY;) the Helmer cluster

lol the guy surely is very ambitious - 4 PFLOPS for $0.9M http://helmer3.sfe.se/ 2008/10/5 Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > A Linux cluster built in a Helmer IKEA cabinet: > > http://helmer.sfe.se/ > ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org T

RE: [Beowulf] OT: the ongoing computer chess championship in China

On a related note, at the same tournament, the cluster version of "Many Face of Go" has won the Gold medal in both 9X9 and 19X19 categories with no defeats. Go is notoriously harder than Chess for computers to play as you might now. The results are here: http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icg

Re: [Beowulf] Compute Node OS on Local Disk vs. Ram Disk

John Hearns wrote: 2008/10/1 Donald Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It's foreseeable that holding an 8GB install image in memory will be trivial, but that will be a few years in the future, not today. And we will need better VM and PTE management to