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Student, prof build budget supercomputer (gigaflops on the cheap)
Calvin.Edu ^ | August 30 , 2007 | Allison Graff

Posted on 08/31/2007 9:15:39 AM PDT by N3WBI3

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Given the interest some freepers have in Supercomputers I thought a Linux powered hobby model would be neat.
1 posted on 08/31/2007 9:15:42 AM PDT by N3WBI3
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To: N3WBI3; ShadowAce; Tribune7; frogjerk; Salo; LTCJ; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; amigatec; Fractal Trader; ..

OSS Ping..


2 posted on 08/31/2007 9:16:04 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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Imagine a Beowulf of thes... wait, wrong board.


3 posted on 08/31/2007 9:25:16 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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That’s some fast, economical communism......


4 posted on 08/31/2007 9:31:49 AM PDT by Salo
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lol


5 posted on 08/31/2007 9:33:54 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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You have a bit of experience with these, whats your take..


6 posted on 08/31/2007 9:37:18 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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Kewl... can it run “Doom”?


7 posted on 08/31/2007 9:46:45 AM PDT by willgolfforfood
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Ping


8 posted on 08/31/2007 10:33:42 AM PDT by politicket
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“...Calvin computer science professor Joel Adams...”

Work from one of those darned private Christian colleges!
(The department head when I was in grad school was a Calvin grad;
and son of Christian missionaries to China).

http://www.calvin.edu/about/

What Makes Calvin Unique?

U.S. News - America’s Best Colleges 2007
Numerous college guides give high praise to Calvin.

Calvin is the distinctively Christian, academically excellent
liberal arts college that shapes minds for intentional participation
in the renewal of all things.


9 posted on 08/31/2007 10:41:25 AM PDT by VOA
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You have a bit of experience with these, whats your take..

Pretty cool. I recently finished installing the first Dell Cluster of the Intel Quad Core boards for the Navy. 126 Nodes, 1008 Cores, and the theoretical peak was about 10 TFlops.

I only bring it up because the chips seem to be the same.

I've seen an article in the past on Linux Journal about a guy who built a cluster in a tool box that he would connect to his laptop. I'll have to go look for that article again...

10 posted on 08/31/2007 11:55:16 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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That would be really cool to see..


11 posted on 08/31/2007 12:09:25 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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It's a couple of years old, but here it is.
12 posted on 08/31/2007 12:15:55 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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With a game server like that there would be no lag.


13 posted on 08/31/2007 1:24:41 PM PDT by BJClinton (And then it occured to me: a real rocket scientist posted the Friday silliness thread on Thursday.)
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So this is that free software you’re always talking about that countries like Iran and North Korea can all download for free?


14 posted on 08/31/2007 4:01:35 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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Dude that is so cool it makes me want to go drop 2500 for parts but with the next osx coming out and the fact I want to max out my PB’s memory so I can do more playing around with qemu (If you know of a better x86 emulator Id love to know) My computer budget is set for a bit.


15 posted on 08/31/2007 7:27:13 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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Someone mailed me asking me to reply to this so Ill pop off greasmonkey for a few seconds.

This is a story about a kids at a Christian college putting together an affordable super computer which will help his dept, his school, and others to make distributed supercomputing more possible. You cant come on and compliment the *hardware* design can you?

You cant come on in and contribute anything of worth can you?

Nope you just come in at troll level nine... This is why you have earned the nickname Ort.


16 posted on 08/31/2007 7:30:01 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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I simply don’t believe in making technology of this caliber completely “open” so that adversaries of the US are free to copy it and implement in their military programs. You apparently are fine with that, doesn’t even cross your mind when you’re constantly posting articles like this, but at some point you’re going to have to admit there are people like me out here that rightfully have such concerns, whether you are mature enough to realize the significance or not.
17 posted on 08/31/2007 7:37:46 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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I simply don’t believe in making technology of this caliber

Ok folks GE is now in the 'Its powerful software' mode, he has switched from 'Its a inferior foreign clone'.

You apparently are fine with that, doesn’t even cross your mind

When Windows does something neat does it cross your mind that Microsoft has allowed the Chinese extesive access to the source code? When Apple does something cool does it cross your mind first that the core of their OS called Darwin (Named after an evolutionist /snicker) is free for them to download and use? Funny I dont see you trolling on the mac threads?

18 posted on 08/31/2007 10:17:12 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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foreign clone

The clustering software is American, despite your fantasies.

Microsoft has allowed the Chinese extesive access to the source code

Only as a commercial response to guys like you who support the Chinese taking Red Hat for free, legally renaming it, then reselling it as "Red Flag".

Named after an evolutionist/snicker

I see your best buddy is starting to mold you into a puppet for all his causes.

19 posted on 08/31/2007 10:27:44 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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The clustering software is American, despite your fantasies.

The OS being clustered is not..

Only as a commercial response to guys like you who support the Chinese taking Red Hat for free, legally renaming it, then reselling it as "Red Flag".

You mean the Red Hat that got its start by taking a Finnish made Kernel?

I see your best buddy is starting to mold you into a puppet for all his causes.

I see something flying over your head... The snicker was aimed at you because were a project under the GPL named Dawrin (or for example a dirsto) you would surly claim it as evidance of the products evil nature.

20 posted on 09/01/2007 12:35:01 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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