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When it was installed (ca. 1998-99?), the most powerful supercomputer in the
world was at Sandia National Labs. It was a roomful of custom Pentium Pro
motherboards- I think a total of about 2000 dual MB's, i.e. about 4,000
P-Pro's at 200MHz. The network was a mesh that connected a logical grid of
(about) 16 x 128 where each board had a custom NIC that passed messages at
200-400 MB/s to each vertical/horizontal neighbor which in turn passed it
onto the destination node. All air-cooled. Each cabinet had a set of RAID
drives accessible by all nodes. A small lightweight OS ran on each, with a
manager node that presented a Unix-like interface to the user.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Nelson [mailto:trader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 2:24 AM
To: Mark Brown
Cc: 'Omega-List@xxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: the ultimate .............
I read this, laughed at the absurdity of it and then stopped laughing
long enough to
imagine... "hey this just might work"!
-- John
Mark Brown wrote:
>Hello John,
>
>I would look at elinux.com they have windoz also, 1U rack mount
>starting around 800.00
>
>JN> Ok... but where to buy reliable (but reasonably priced) rack mount
machines?
>
>i thought of this idea take a refrigerator or freezer then using 3/16
>diameter all thread buy up a buch of mother boards with on board nic
>and vid then string them up on the all thread one at a time a couple
>of inches apart from one another. then stack them in the freezer
>either with or without the hardrives (haven't decided yet) poke a hole
>in the side of the freezer to run cables out and there you have it.
>
>the poor mans cray.. ;-) now add the win2k cluster server and we
>could have a party.
>
>ps poor man's cray is a trademark of mb and if the idea is used it
>must be licensed from same.
>
>--
>
>Have a Great Day, Mark
>
>http://www.markbrown.com
>
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