[Beowulf] deskside Cray prices

[John Hearns]

2008/10/22 Peter St. John <peter.st.john at gmail.com>

> Just for fun, I configured the new deskside Cray as if for Christmas, at
> https://cx1.cray.com
>
.....

>
> But for 90K I could have a heck of a lot of commodity nodes. But it was fun
> to look.
>


Indeed. Doug Eadline's article on "rack em and stack em" personal clusters
over on Linux Magazine this week is interesting.

Notably, open-MX is now available - so you should be able to spend a lot
less $$$ for your Christmas present.
But sadly no Cray badge (but hey - do they have badges on their spare parts
list, like auto manufacturers :-)
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