Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Am Montag, 18. Februar 2002 00:26 schrieb Tom Cook: > > > > Heck, why not buy a few cheapy nics and build a beowulf cluster? *grin* > > > > One of our departments here are rumored to have a large number (ie. > > hundreds) of 486s running such a cluster, and it is very nice, so I am > > told... > > > > Tom > > Yeah, sounds nice, but how will you get the money to build the power plant > you need?
Oh, come now, what's a 486 with no monitor or disk eat? 50 Watts at the absolute most? So you can run four off a 200W AT power supply. Say if there are two hundred, that's only 10kW; it'd only draw about 40 amps; you could run that on three household circuit-breakers (to conform to Australian standards). Tom
