Re: [SLUG] linux beowulf cluster

[Martin <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It's a linux beowulf "super computer" built by a PhD student based on 64 AMD Athlon 1GHz PCs.

I got a bit of deja vu reading that article... so i turned to the trusty
google and turned up this:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/2000/12/11/FFXYTVALJGC.html

An almost identical article from 2 months ago...

Seems the Fairfax guys read press releases quicker then News Limited...
;)

Jokes aside, note how the AusIT mentions the $50,000 price tag and how
it outperforms $20m machines... yet in the Age article it says that the
$50,000 is what was spent, but the true value is in the millions thanks
to donations by AMD...

The CSIRO has a more fleshed out story here: 

http://www.csiro.au/page.asp?type=faq&id=caduceus

later
marty