Comments on: What Are You Going To Do With Your FLOPS? http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/ Open Source, Open Standards Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:51:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: chuntera http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/#comment-423 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:55:07 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/#comment-423 "Many of the important applications now run on clusters (which are distributed memory parallel computers)" Can you give examples ? “Many of the important applications now run on clusters (which are distributed memory parallel computers)”

Can you give examples ?

]]> by: Patrick Berry http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/#comment-394 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:12:47 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4088/#comment-394 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! 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!

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