[Beowulf] The Walmart Compute Node?

[Vincent Diepeveen]

For a compute cluster wouldn't it be a thought to also consider the  
cost of 3 years of nonstop electricity for the amount of gflops it  
delivers?

Vincent

On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Peter St. John wrote:

> Recently, probably you noticed, Walmart began selling a $200 linux PC.
> (Apparently the OS is just Ubuntu 7.10 with a small xindow manager
> instead of Gnome or KDE). Now Slashdot points to
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5305482907.html, the MB being sold
> separately for $60 ("development board"). It has 1.5GHz CPU,
> unpopulated memory (slots for 2GB), one 10/100 connection. Does this
> look to y'all like fair FLOPS/$ for a kitchen project? I'm thinking 6
> of them as compute nodes per 8 port router, with a bigger head node
> for fileserving. (actually I'll use a spare room but you know what I
> mean). An arrangement like this might be faster RAM access per core,
> compared to multicore, since each core has no competition for is't own
> memory, right?
> Thanks,
> Peter
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