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Re: [LUG] DIY supercomputer

 

tom wrote:
> Richard Brown wrote:
>   
>> Hi Tom
>>
>> On 31/08/2007, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>     
>>> http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2007-08/microwulf.htm
>>> I want one!
>>> Tom te tom te tom
>>>
>>>       
>> Surely this is totally possible. I have just been offered 20 odd
>> 750mhz computers. Isn't it possible to link them together in a similar
>> fashion to test whether this is possible. Ok we'll need a big room but
>> I'm game!
>>
>> What's a good date for you? Or anyone else?
>>     
>
> Before we embark on this project I would just like to know 2 things :-
>
> 1. Does anyone know what the environmental impact is of having 20 750Mhz 
> machines running continually and contiguously ?
>
> (Presume that the owner is aware that his/her electricity bill is going 
> to go through the roof ?)
>
> 2. What we going to do with the beast once we have constructed it ?
>
> Of course if the answer to 2 is purely academic curiosity ..... I can 
> bring my camcorder ;-)
>
> Tom.
>   

1. ~6kw
2. bring camcorder anyway... Folding perhaps ??

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