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Hi, On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:06:51PM +0100, Clare Shepherd wrote: > On 31 Aug 2007, at 11:13, Tom Potts wrote: > > I want one! > > Wow, I want one too. I advise anyone interested in supercomputers to > follow the link. All that power and it runs off the mains, isn't > cooled and cost under �2500. Thanks for the headsup Tom. I have to say though, I don't think this is a particularly good way to build a cluster. A cluster that fits on a single desk in the footprint of a normal mini/miditower PC, yes. But to compare that to professionally-constructed clusters and claim that the low cost per GFLOP means it is better seems to be an er.. interesting use of statistics :) For a start this goes beyond commodity components - they used the most bargain basement components imaginable. MSI motherboards!? I could spend probably twice as much and still be using commodity components, and to be honest if I wanted something reliable I definitely would. Then there is the decidedly ghetto construction. I don't think it will scale well beyond 4 nodes, and I don't think it would be workable in terms of failure rate of components if you did. It was an interesting article though - good to see what can be achieved even with cheap stuff. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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