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Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer
Luke writes "This past winter Calvin College professor Joel Adams and then Calvin senior Tim Brom built Microwulf, a portable supercomputer with 26.25 gigaflops peak performance, that cost less than $2,500 to construct, becoming the most cost-efficient supercomputer anywhere that Adams knows of. "It's small enough to check on an airplane or fit next to a desk," said Brom. Instead of a bunch of researchers having to share a single Beowulf cluster supercomputer, now each researcher can have their own."
You forgot to provide a link to that...
Checking something called an iRack onto a plane is just asking for a full cavity body search and possibly a nice orange jumpsuit.
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Minesweeper under Vista - No
-- Intelligence is soluble in alcohol
Sure. But then your cat would have to moonlight as a mouser, run errands for the neighborhood dogs, and -- worst of all -- give up catnip; all in order to pay for the project.
I would not want to live in the same house as a sleep deprived cat going through catnip withdrawl.
"Where's my other sock?" - A. Einstein
Doubt it. You think you can hook up gigabit ethernet without at least five cats eh?
They just linked 4 motherboards together. My cat could do that.
Would your cat be alive at the end of the process? We wouldn't be sure till we opened the case.
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Discovering that you can build an even more cost effective supercomputer than these guys: priceless
which is totally what she said
Only if you don't plan on playing MP3s.