A supercomputer at home

Re:A supercomputer at home by Tichy on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @03:17AM (#246455)

2P3s and 1 P4 is not a supercomputer.

I bought a Quadcore PC with 4GB Ram for 600€ from Dell recently. A price tag that makes the time to glue your own rotting hardware together a very questionable investment.

If really interested in "Supercomputing", I suppose Cell processor (PS3) or GPUs are the way to go...

Also, energy consumption might be important. Probably the old CPUs don't really look so good in that respect.

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Re:A supercomputer at home by manvsmachine on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @07:22PM (#247167)

I totally agree. He's trying to retrofit hardware that is ridiculously outdated for this purpose. And why bother when a few thousand dollars will get the average Joe a good size PS3 cluster, which has been proven to be effective for near-supercomputing applications?

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