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Subject: Re: MONSTER ENGINES: Multiple Processors & Extreme Software Specializati

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:22:12 08/30/98

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On August 30, 1998 at 12:26:03, Ren Wu wrote:

>Hi, Bob
>
>Do you have the link the the vender's website? I'm interested in such system
>too!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ren. (renw@iname.com)
>
>On August 29, 1998 at 22:14:53, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>
>>this is already happening.  IE two programs on ICC (fitter and cataclysm) are
>>running on dual PII/400 systems, and the machines are at home, not being used
>>as servers.  The entire Linux SMP software development project is being done
>>by people that have duals and quads *at home*.  It isn't extremely common just
>>yet, but there are far more duals at home that I would have guessed...  because
>>you can put together a PII/400 dual system for way under 2500 dollars, including
>>big disks, lots of memory, and a monitor...
>>
>>pretty amazing...


the best bet is to look up "ASUS" which makes some really good dual-cpu
motherboards...  in the 300 price range...  what most are then doing is
buying 333mhz PII's and overclocking them to 400, which seems perfectly
safe based on past results...  and the price becomes very cheap to do
this...

Most "dualie" machines are built like this (buy your own motherboard and
processors, plug them in and go).  Otherwise, you get into the "server"
pricing with most companies, and pay highly inflated prices...

You might log on to ICC and talk to either Mike Byrne (fitter) or Jason
Deines (jasondes) as both have recently done this quite economically.

Other ways would be to visit www.pricewatch.com, which has prices for
dualie (and quad) boards...



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