[Beowulf] power consumption for IBM J20 blade or Apple Xserve?

[Bill Broadley]

> Why don't you call a vendor or two, and see if they won't loan you a box
> of each to play with.  Then you can put it on your very own kill-a-watt
> and run your very own benchmarks for performance estimation.  Tell 'em

I plan to benchmark the new g5 xserv this friday, I'll use a kill-a-watt
and test idle, running 1 copy of stream, and running 2 copies of stream.

I might be able to run other benchmarks if people are interested, but
I'll only have approximately 1 hour with the machine.

-- 
Bill Broadley
Computational Science and Engineering
UC Davis