The University of Kentucky (where he is coincidently going to grad school) beat his price point years ago on a "real" supercomputer. This super computer was built for about $84 per GFLOP in 2003 and it made the Top500 list when it was built. The Aggregate team at UK is one of the tops in the field when it comes to supercomputers on the cheap.
by a cluster computing group at the University of Kentucky called the Aggregate http://aggregate.org/. They built a nine laptop display panel that is basically what you are trying to do. It is much more difficult than I thought it would be to do. Here is a video of the panel in action http://aggregate.org/IMG/mvi_5158.avi. And here is the software they created to do it http://aggregate.org/VWLib/.
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The University of Kentucky (where he is coincidently going to grad school) beat his price point years ago on a "real" supercomputer. This super computer was built for about $84 per GFLOP in 2003 and it made the Top500 list when it was built. The Aggregate team at UK is one of the tops in the field when it comes to supercomputers on the cheap.
by a cluster computing group at the University of Kentucky called the Aggregate http://aggregate.org/. They built a nine laptop display panel that is basically what you are trying to do. It is much more difficult than I thought it would be to do. Here is a video of the panel in action http://aggregate.org/IMG/mvi_5158.avi. And here is the software they created to do it http://aggregate.org/VWLib/.