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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 ?? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html