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Portable 8-iMac Linux Cluster Real World Debut

Snocone writes: "Here is the first real world application (researching drug effects on the brain, ironically enough) of Terra Soft's 8-way Black Lab Linux cluster. Even if they didn't deserve mad props for standing up proudly against the Lintel hegemony, there's just something fundamentally hilarious about selling an $18K supercomputer made out of iMacs." So - eight Imacs. You could get the different colors, and call it a Lifesavers Candy Cluster?

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  1. I am not too familiar with Beowulf Clusters, but; by Nanookanano · · Score: 5

    If you hook 8 Macs into a token ring, would you consider that a Fruit Loop?

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