Xbox clusters?
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Velocet math at velocet.caWed Nov 28 11:40:19 PST 2001
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:04:55PM -0500, Velocet's all... > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:50:46PM -0500, Josip Loncaric's all... > > Microsoft's Xbox packages a 733 MHz Pentium III, 64 megabytes of memory, > > a DVD drive, 100 Mbps Ethernet, and an 8-gigabyte hard disk for about > > $300. This would make it a reasonably powerful cluster node with an > > excellent price/performance ratio. Of course, the thing runs a > > slimmed-down variant of Windows 2000 instead of Linux, but has anyone > > discussed making an Xbox cluster? > > Why bother when for about $300 USD you can put together a > cluster node with a 1.333GHz athlon with 256Mb of DDR ram? > > Sides, who brought 'price/performance' onto this list? Dont know thats never a > factor on the beowulf list? :) So, the question is, with these numbers, how do people end up spending $250K on 40 or even 60-CPU clusters? /kc
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