First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships

Panaphonix writes "The Register reports that Orion Multisystems is shipping the first 96-node desktop cluster. 'With the new, larger system, customers get pretty much the most powerful computer around that can plug into a standard electrical socket.' According to the spec sheet, the DS-96 runs Fedora Core 2 and gets 110 GFlops sustained, 230 GFlops peak."

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Case = $600 Search for Xeon 3.06 2*$350, 80gb HDD $100, 512mb RAM $100 = $1500.
So even using $/Gflops as the benchmark, the p4 is $122/Gflop.
But this completely ignores what they drill into your head in any decent computer architecture class - the best benchmarks in order are: time to complete > some indication of real world performance ie specFp > Gflops.
So if we use the best benchmark that we can, then the p4 system has 3x the performance/$ compared to the mac, since it is 1.5x performance and half the price.

Try again mac fanboy.