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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."

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  1. Standard comments by mcrbids · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Let's just get them out of the way, shall we?

    1) Imagine a beowulf cluster of... uh, hold on.

    2) In Soviet Russia, the computer clusters YOU!

    3) frist Psot!

    4) DUPE!

    5) Old people in Noth Korea...

    6) How fast will the Linux Kernel compile on THAT baby?

    7) Yeah, but what's the FPS in Quake III?

    8)Some other comment regarding Microsoft, Sun, or SGI....

    Also, if you browse at -1...

    9) GNAA

    10) goatse,

    11) Cmdr Taco

    There. Did I get them all? Let the REAL discussions begin!

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  2. Overlords by l0rdpestilence · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I for one welcome our new orion mulisystems overlords

  3. Re:mmm clusters by agm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Paralizing or parallelizing?