Comments on: What Are You Going To Do With Your FLOPS? http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: floridasage1 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/#comment-4027 floridasage1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/#comment-4027 How about "over 26 Gflops of measured performance for $1256.00"? <br /> <br /> "It's dimensions are just 11" x 12" x 17", making it small enough to fit on one's desktop or in a suitcase. and is built from 4 microATX motherboards" and 4 PSUs. http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/design/ <br /> <br /> "As of Aug 1, 2007, Microwulf can be built for $1256, improving its price/performance ratio to less than $48/Gflop. See the Cluster Monkey article for the details." http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/211/1/<br /> <br /> It is getting difficult to write an article for publication without the technology blowing past your publish date with a complete new generation of increased capability! How about “over 26 Gflops of measured performance for $1256.00″?

“It’s dimensions are just 11″ x 12″ x 17″, making it small enough to fit on one’s desktop or in a suitcase. and is built from 4 microATX motherboards” and 4 PSUs. http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/design/

“As of Aug 1, 2007, Microwulf can be built for $1256, improving its price/performance ratio to less than $48/Gflop. See the Cluster Monkey article for the details.” http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/211/1/

It is getting difficult to write an article for publication without the technology blowing past your publish date with a complete new generation of increased capability!

]]> By: chuntera http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/#comment-4028 chuntera Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/#comment-4028 "Many of the important applications now run on clusters (which are distributed memory parallel computers)"<br /> <br /> Can you give examples ? “Many of the important applications now run on clusters (which are distributed memory parallel computers)”

Can you give examples ?

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