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  1. Re:quick, bomb them by jacquesm · · Score: 1 · on Venezuela Purchases a Million Intel Classmates

    no, cluster computing was exactly what I had in mind when I wrote that.

    See http://clustercompute.com/

  2. Re:I doubt the need for that much ram. by jacquesm · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Best Motherboards With Large RAM Capacity?

    even the not-so-wealthy can have skills that allow them to ask difficult questions but may not have a corresponding budget.

    I used to be in that position. Now I run my more interesting software on a 5 node dual opteron cluster (small for a cluster, I know... see that's those budget constraints again), each node has 8G of ram and 3TB storage. Before that it was 10 pentium machines at 600 Ghz (See http://clustercompute.com/ , which has inspired numerous people to build copies) and before that it was 10 pentium 225's (overclocked 200's :) ). What used to take weeks now takes at the most days. My applications are mostly in datamining, but I find computational biology to be very interesting.

    You have to love it when people overcome their financial limitations with cleverness, why not give the guy a break and simply help him to solve his problem, starting out from the assumption that his problems and limitations are real.

    It would have been nice to have a few more bits of information about the kind of data and the nature of the calculations, I'm pretty sure that 'cheap' is also relative but it seems that cheaper is better for this guy. How many people are at their most brilliant periods in their lives when they're also poor is not easy to figure out but I would not be surprised if it was the majority.

  3. Re:Imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer

    or a beowulf cluster of these..., which arguably was a cheap supercomputer for a long long time.

  4. Maybe it could be more compact by foxb · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer

    In http://clustercompute.com/ you could find better design in term of compactness. Another thing is that the cluster does not need KVM (in process only at test mode) and as noted in several research papers dual 100M can beat gigabit (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Linux_Athlon _Testbed )

  5. Re:the google way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer

    google hasn't built a rack like that since the first year they were in business...

    these guys did though, and it looks the prof and the student just copied the concept: ultra cheap cluster computer

  6. Re:Don't sweat it ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Building Your First Cluster?

    for a *really* low cost version look at clustercompute

  7. not as dense as mine ! by jacquesm · · Score: 4, Interesting · on SGI Introduces World's Densest Server

    www.clustercompute.com

    well, on a per mips basis maybe, but then again I could use faster cpu's today.

  8. this bests my record :( by jacquesm · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Linux On HP Blades

    at www.clustercompute.com I thought I had the previous highest density record... not any more :)