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Old 24-09-2009, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised View Post
Why buy an i7 when you can knock up a beowulf cluster with a few cheapies and a linux distro
Company plug. If your pocket is a bit deeper:

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/...ene.index.html

"The Blue Gene/L machine was designed and built in collaboration with the Department of Energy's NNSA/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and the LLNL system has a peak speed of 596 Teraflops. Blue Gene systems occupy the #4 (LLNL Blue Gene/L) and #5 (Argonne Blue Gene/P) positions in the TOP500 supercomputer list announced in November 2008"
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