Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer 387
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 $2,500 to construct, becoming the most cost-efficient supercomputer anywhere that Adams knows of. "It's small enough to check on an airplane or fit next to a desk," said Brom. Instead of a bunch of researchers having to share a single Beowulf cluster supercomputer, now each researcher can have their own."
Imagine... (Score:4, Funny)
(Okay, now back to responsible mature posting)
Check in on an airplane ? (Score:3, Funny)
Cool achievement nevertheless.
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How is this interesting? (Score:3, Funny)
But (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)
You forgot to provide a link to that...
Re:Check in on an airplane ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But (Score:2, Funny)
Re:But.. (Score:5, Funny)
Minesweeper under Vista - No
Re:How is this interesting? (Score:5, Funny)
Sure. But then your cat would have to moonlight as a mouser, run errands for the neighborhood dogs, and -- worst of all -- give up catnip; all in order to pay for the project.
I would not want to live in the same house as a sleep deprived cat going through catnip withdrawl.
Re:How is this interesting? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How is this interesting? (Score:5, Funny)
Would your cat be alive at the end of the process? We wouldn't be sure till we opened the case.
Re:**Lets chop that price down...the newegg,com wa (Score:5, Funny)
Re:gigaflops? (Score:4, Funny)
Orac from Blake's Seven (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Lame. (Score:4, Funny)
This story is literally a 'nothing to see here, move along' one.
Re:Imagine... (Score:0, Funny)
Lousy Latency Performance, Though (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Do you reckon it could run Crysis? (Score:3, Funny)
Beowulf = pain in the a** (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, and try writing your own lam-mpi code sometime...
Re:What would you do with one? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How does it compare to a PS3? (Score:2, Funny)
256 MB XDR @3.2 GHz for system memory and 256 MB GDDR3 @700 MHz for video memory. Not to bring on a console war extravaganza, but the M$ xbox 360 has the same amount of total memory, but instead theirs is 512 MB UMA (Shared with CPU)...
Anyway, memory could very well be a limitation with a cluster of ps3s vs. the microwulf cluster, but it all would depend on the operations your performing. I'd venture to guess the 256mb of system memory would be enough for anyone. :)
Re:Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)
No, stay with us on Slashdot!
Re:Newbie translation please? (Score:2, Funny)
stable? (Score:3, Funny)
Still, meh indeed, scrape together the piles of computers your average