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Linux Desktop Clustering - Pick Your Pricerange

Posted by timothy on from the cheapness-rocks dept.

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.

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  1. Early post. by Tasty+Beef+Jerky · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Damn... by jargoone · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A hat trick, and I wasn't even trying...

    1. Re:Damn... by jargoone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    2. Re:Damn... by SpookComix · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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  3. Hey by Guitarzan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Can I get a Beowulf clu......um, nevermind.

  4. Sexy...? by grahamsz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  5. Replace the Celerons with Tbirds... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And you could toast some smores on it!

  6. No, but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine reading Beowulf while listening to the hum from a cluster of these....

  7. Re:Can you imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A beowolf cluster of these? Sorry, I have just seen this post so many times in the past that I couldn't resist bringing it up.

    If you've really seen this post many times, then you should know that it's spelled "beowulf". You're a troll wannabe.

  8. O dammit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A "BEWOLF CLUSTER sic)" still won't help your spelling.

  9. Re:Cluster == sexy by CoJoNEs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I do my seti on a p75 laptop
    I think its sexy.

  10. Re:Virtual macines??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are a dumbass

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  12. Re:Why is Timothy badmouthing... by nomadic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  13. Re:Can you imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nope, but can you imagine a beowulf cluster of Karma Whores?

  14. Off Topic? by DebtAngel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Redundant, maybe, but off-topic> ?!?!?!?

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