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Subject: Re: [9fans] nice hardware for a cpu server
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
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Date: Tue,  3 Feb 2004 01:50:46 +0000
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> 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?

most people doing grid computing in my growing experience tend to want to
do quite a bit of computation or mess with big data, which is one reason
for wanting to split up the load, and consequently typically
floating-point is important and usually overall computational speed is important
and memory and IO bandwidth are often important, all of those tending to work
against `really low cost' where some compromise is made.