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Linux Desktop Clustering - Pick Your Pricerange
crashlight writes: "A Linux cluster on the desktop--Rocket Calc just announced their 8-processor "personal" cluster in a mid-tower-sized box. Starting at $4500, you get 8 Celeron 800MHz processors, each with 256MB RAM and a 100Mbps ethernet connection. The box also has an integrated 100Mbps switch. Plus it's sexy." Perhaps less sexy, but for a lot less money, you can also run a cluster of Linux (virtual) machines on your desktop on middle-of-the-road hardware. See this followup on Grant Gross's recent piece on Virtual Machines over at Newsforge.
Can I get a Beowulf clu......um, nevermind.
I'm sorry but it's just a big red box.
I can see why mac systems are stylish and perhaps 'sexy' but this is just big and red.
Although red is better than beige i guess.
I do my seti on a p75 laptop
I think its sexy.
I can see where you're coming from, but in this case he followed up his negative comment with an actual link to another method of clustering. So it's more than a compare and contrast than just a statement then anti-statement.
I guess that one hit post. Almost though. Thanks for the kind words, and thoughtful haiku. I'd better start whoring again, or I won't see mod points for a while.
Redundant, maybe, but off-topic> ?!?!?!?
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