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Where to Spend $1M on a Cluster?

Posted by Cliff on from the shopping-for-beowulfs dept.

Natchswing asks: "My university has been given a $757,825 NSF grant to build, 'A 256 node (128 pair) Beowulf parallel computing cluster ... to improve the realism of gravity-wave modeling by permitting treatment of the three dimensional problem and multiple wave interactions.' They want to pay a company to just show up and drop off a functional cluster rather than build it themselves. Since word has leaked out regarding the purchase intent, every computer manufacturer under the sun (including Apollo himself) has called up trying to sell their cluster. Since I'm no cluster expert, I'm writing Slashdot. If you had $0.7 mil to buy a pre-built cluster who would you go with and why?"

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  1. Do it with an apple by skammie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Try an Xserve Raid cluster here.

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    1. Re:Do it with an apple by skammie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I'm not so much a fanboi as I really should have copied this article instead.

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