Beowulf in a Box (fwd)

[Shachar Tal]

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> As long as Intel hasn't/doesn't get into the beowulf business itself, I
> think that they are relatively "safe" from the government from an export
> control point of view -- if a customer like, say, Israel or India wants
> to buy ten high end Intel boxes they certainly can (and do!).  If they
> want to buy a T3E or Origin or SP2, however, they have to literally make
> a diplomatic issue of it, which is expensive, cumbersome, and negatively
> impacts sales.

Well, we in Israel thought about this a long time ago :)

Check out http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/Labs/Millipede

Shachar Tal
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