Xbox Linux Cluster

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Posted by timothy on Thursday January 30, 2003 @07:11AM from the imagine-away dept.

aeiz writes "Adam Cecchetti put together a Linux cluster using 3 modded Xboxes and was quite surprised with the results. He used the Mandrake Linux distro." illumin8 summarizes Cecchetti's conclusion after investigating "the cost-effectiveness (or lack thereof) and trouble involved in setting up a 3 node Linux cluster based on the Microsoft hardware. The end result: A cheaper Walmart PC would perform better at the same task."

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XBOX SUXORS! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Real FP'ers use Windows.
oooh oooh oooh... can I get the fp without... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

triggering the dumb 20 second rule???

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Shit by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

on a stickaroooooooooooooooooooooooo
Performance? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

HAHA I FOOL u FUCKERS! First muthafuckin' pizost!
fp by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

fp
Shit by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

On a stickaroooooooooooooooooooooo
IN SOVIET RUSSIA! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Trolls joke about beowulf clusters!!!!!

oh..wait...
Karma whoring... by mikeage · 2003-01-30 07:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Google Cache
That's all.

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Re:So... I'm Brian Fellows!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm Brain Fellows!!
Just noticed the new "hack" by Amsterdam+Vallon · 2003-01-30 07:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If you click a comment's unique ID number link, you'll see a box with detailed information on all the moderation that has gone into that comment.

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda has always said that he refused to adopt a better moderation system, such as the one used at Kuro5hin, because it "wouldn't scale".

But then they implement this new system, which I'm sure takes up more CPU time than Kuro5hin's simple averaging scheme for comment score calculations.

Anyone else think this seems a bit hypocritical? Just give every member the right to vote on a scale from 1-5 for each comment, and then average the score. It'd make for a lot less -1, Interesting and 5, Troll comments -- that's for sure.

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BIG deal by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

an Xbox is a PC, how does this story make it on here?
Interesting Site... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 07:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

http://www.kingsofchaos.com/page.php?id=156303

Check it out, insightful IMHO.
Well, duh. by Demona · 2003-01-30 08:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Chicks dig OpenBSD.

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WOW by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 08:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

An actual page on the internet without ads or popups!

Sniff... Feels like websurfing in 1996
Re:Looks as if MS has succeded. by groomed · 2003-01-30 11:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Intellectual Property, like flying pigs, cannot be found in nature. I'd love to hear you repeat that when somebody beats the shit out of you for stealing his idea.