From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Wed Jan 23 14:51:15 2002 Received: from mailrelay1.lrz-muenchen.de ([129.187.254.101]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0NJpFc28480 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:51:15 -0500 Received: from sun3.lrz-muenchen.de by mailrelay1.lrz-muenchen.de with ESMTP for chemistry@ccl.net; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:50:38 +0100 Received: from localhost (ui22204@localhost) by sun3.lrz-muenchen.de (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07289 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:50:36 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sun3.lrz-muenchen.de: ui22204 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:50:36 +0100 (MET) From: Eugene Leitl X-X-Sender: To: Subject: FYI:/. linux desktop clustering Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/22/1854218.shtml "A Linux cluster on the desktop--Rocket Calc just announced their 8- processor "personal" cluster in a mid-tower-sized box. Starting at $4500, you get 8 Celeron 800MHz processors, each with 256MB RAM and a 100Mbps ethernet connection. The box also has an integrated 100Mbps switch. Plus it's sexy." Perhaps less sexy, but for a lot less money, you can also run a cluster of Linux (virtual) machines on your desktop on middle-of-the-road hardware. See this followup on Grant Gross's recent piece on Virtual Machines over at Newsforge. More details at http://www.rocketcalc.com/index.php?loc=redstone