Somewhat OT: Top 500 list

[Kendrick]

Jon Pruente wrote:

> There is a local theoretical physicist I know of that is wanting to
> build a cluster and probably base it on Linux.  I know he's mentioned
> renting time on the machine to local Univ.s and others to help pay for
> it.  He had some really good local sites reseached to locate it, and
> his own project to run on it would be quite revolutionary.  I'm just
> hoping that when the build comes on I can get my hand dirty with
> setting up some highend hardware.
>
> Jon
>
> On 11/16/05, *Jack* <quiet_celt at yahoo.com
> <mailto:quiet_celt at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     I wonder if we could pool every one on the KCLUG and
>     KULUA UGs and maybe some of the other UGs in the area,
>     how big of a cluster we could throw together, with
>     various mismatched systems. An interesting possibility
>     would be to build a PCMAC cluster. That would be
>     challenging, but probably not very efficient. Although
>     might have some real world uses.
>
>
>     Brian JD
>
Im also intrested in seeing what the via c7  and dual core systems are
like for clustering.  C7 is suposed to be much faster and intended for
laptops.  If the correct board layout was made they could be extreemly
eficent for clustering..   L.J  had a article about a 16 node cluster in
a tool box.  they have made several.  one used p3 mini-itx but needed a
huge power supply.  the pc104 units are near 100 the via's are 140 ish+
so it culd be done for relitivly inexpensivly right now.