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Subject: Re: el-cheapo super computer at virginia tech (lol)

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 19:07:34 10/22/03

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Also, http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/22/1727208.shtml

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For mostly non technical reasons, VT was in a big rush to get this farm in place
prior to October first.  If they had been able to wait a month or so, they
likely would have gotten a much better and certainly more appropriate solution
by waiting for Apple to deliver Xserve cluster nodes (rackmount) with dual G5
CPUs.  Now they have paid for 1,100 desktop machines, each with plenty of costly
features that have absolutely no use in a cluster environment.



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