Tuesday, September 11, 2007

$48/Gflop Supercomputer w/low power, too

Calvin CS professor Joel Adams and senior Tim Brom have designed and built an inexpensive (~ $1300) 26 Gflop supercomputer called Microwulf (a play on Beowulf, referring to a cluster of Linux nodes). The machine as it now stands has eight nodes, but can be updated to 16 by replacing the processors. Microwulf consumes only 450W at full load.

(Via Make magazine)

2 Comments:

Blogger Carrie said...

I misread comically, and I thought you said it can be updated to 16 by replacing the professor. Don't think Joe Adams and Tim Brom would be too thrilled about that!
~Always~

3:01 PM  
Blogger Carrie said...

Have you 'played' with Blogger Play yet? Is it not interesting?
~Always~

2:57 PM  

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