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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] nice hardware for a cpu server
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Date: Tue,  3 Feb 2004 08:10:04 +1100
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The linksys wrt54g is less than US$90, even on amazon.
MIPS processor, details available all over the net.
inferno runs just fine on it.  i'm not sure you'd want to
do grid with them tho unless you want to be bathed in
2.4GHz - or i guess you could turn off all the 802.11 stuff.

brucee

> It would be nice to see boards with just CPU, memory, ethernet (or some
> connectivity) only that are really low cost with which one could do grid
> computing without draining too much of money. Why is it not happening?
>
> Regards
> dharani