Miniature Beowulf

Zach Lowry zlowry at directvinternet.com
Fri Mar 15 08:30:39 PST 2002


 
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> I'm currently running 
> http://www.msi.com.tw/products/slim_pc/spec/6215.htm
> at home with a Celeron 1.3 GHz and 512 MBytes of PC133 SDRAM. 
> It can boot
> from the network, and you should be able to get a box sans 
> CPU and DRAM
> for $200.
> 
Funny, I was just about to buy one of these. I used to sell them at a
store I worked at. Pretty cute machine. 

> Older computers are not really worthwhile in terms of 
> performance. If you
> want to play with the concepts, try finding a sale on thin 
> clients which
> are supported by Linux.
> 

Thin clients... Interesting... More on this later.

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