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Wanted: Turn-Key 10-Node Beowulf Cluster
forgotten password writes: "I'd just started working on my morning M&Ms, when I
was asked where my group can buy a good turn-key ~2CPUx10-node
Beowulf cluster in two hours. I suspect the time frame is
longer than that, although the window-of-opportunity for
the money is apparently on the order of days, and a quote
before the procurement meeting would help. Any ideas?
Who's good? What it should cost? Thanks!" If you're quick, maybe you can become the world's newest manufacturer of custom beowulf clusters.
Beowoulf is for suckas!
Like MC HAMMER!
VI
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things?
It hurts!
Mod me down. I never post anyways :D
symetrix. We are building a religion, a limited edition.
is good.
typically cost ya 30000$
when one was... assaulted!
I just dropped another wonderful turd. It was about a foot long. It did not have the same diameter as the last one, but it still won't go down the pipe. I tried to flush it but it just sits there. With all the water out of the bowl, the turd is sticking out of the pipe at a 45 degree angle. Otheres on the floor are rating it a 7 out of 10.
a Beowulf cluster of these? HA!
How about a Beow.... Oh, never mind.
That you're a big fucking cocksucker. Go back to eating shit, you monkey fucking sack of pus.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans!
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Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
I just heard sad news on talk radio - Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.
+1, insightful
This time the dirty cur is actually on topic...
I've got my eye on you boy. One step outta line and blammo!
-- The anti-Beowulf cluster troll