Beowulf in a Box

[Kragen]

On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Kragen wrote:
> http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sa-beowulf/

This is what I was hinting at in various conversations over the last
few weeks.  It is almost a solution for that guy who wanted an SBC
Beowulf -- it could probably be easily adapted for that sort of
environment.

It looks like it's about an order of magnitude better on
price-performance -- for integer stuff -- than the traditional Beowulf
approach.  For $14,000, you could get five six-processor boards and a
PC with five open PCI slots and have a 30-233-MHz-processor Beowulf
with a gigabit backbone.

I'm interested to hear other people's comments.  William Rankin
commented that such things have never gone anywhere, and I'm curious to
find out why.

Kragen

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