I'd have to agrre with you on this one... $1500 for a 486SX 66? Laughable. Bring the price down to $400 - 500 and add a faster CPU and the thing would be great for a lot of things including a nice tight cluster.
The most obvious reasn that the don't throw these in handhelds is power. You have to either have it wired with an AC adapter or you'd have to change the batteries every couple hours.
And there is the interview with Ian Murdoch here on/. that gives a little background on it ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/27/152623 6 starting at #3). The concepts that he puts out there are pretty cool, but the next question is then how soon before it's usable? I saw no mention of it. Anyone have a link for his site?
Well if you are running a Linux distro there is this interesting little site - http://aggregate.org/KLAT2/. The SWAR 3dNOW! technology allows them to use the FPU in the graphics card and MMX to do just what you are saying. This is how they get that extra little kick. Note: I don't think running SETI is an option given all the other messages in this discussion, but it would be good for any other distributed.net type application
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I'd have to agrre with you on this one... $1500 for a 486SX 66? Laughable. Bring the price down to $400 - 500 and add a faster CPU and the thing would be great for a lot of things including a nice tight cluster.
The most obvious reasn that the don't throw these in handhelds is power. You have to either have it wired with an AC adapter or you'd have to change the batteries every couple hours.
And there is the interview with Ian Murdoch here on /. that gives a little background on it ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/27/152623 6 starting at #3). The concepts that he puts out there are pretty cool, but the next question is then how soon before it's usable? I saw no mention of it. Anyone have a link for his site?
Well if you are running a Linux distro there is this interesting little site - http://aggregate.org/KLAT2/. The SWAR 3dNOW! technology allows them to use the FPU in the graphics card and MMX to do just what you are saying. This is how they get that extra little kick. Note: I don't think running SETI is an option given all the other messages in this discussion, but it would be good for any other distributed.net type application