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First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships

Posted by timothy on from the yes-please dept.

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."

6 of 323 comments (clear)

  1. Imagine a Beowulf... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Oh, never mind.

    I FAIL IT!

  2. Wrong term by AndrewStephens · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not duped, this article has been clustered.

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    sheep.horse - does not contain information on sheep or horses.
  3. Re:Question by katana · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sustained: Riding down the street.
    Peak: Taking it off some sweet jumps.

  4. Re:Give it to me in terms I can understand. by spectrokid · · Score: 5, Funny

    You want to be impressed heh? Well, it is powerfull enough to play solitaire on Longhorn!!!!

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    10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then

  5. What?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't hear you, the guy two cubicles over just fired up his new Opteron cluster. I'm just trying to hold on to my desk!

  6. Only on /. (Re:$100,000) by po8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can tell you're on /. when dividing 1e5 by 1e2 to get 1e3 gets modded up to +5 insightful. :-)