From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] 'cpu' is nice and fast. Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 18:43:23 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 83977d60-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Now that I've got the 9 little epias up I can play -- well, actually, only 8 as the power brick for the 9th is on a box on its way to SC 2003 -- oops, mispacking ;-( I'm finding that CPU'ing out a bunch of nodes in parallel is pleasantly fast, much more so than the old Geodes. It is every bit as snappy as the linux/bproc system we have on the other 10 EPIAs -- a pleasant surprise. With the 10 second boot, the ability to cons up a new kernel and dump it onto the compact flash to test, the ability to just boot a new Plan 9 from a running Plan 9, the nice performance, and the Plan 9 environment, this is a darned nice little parallel system. Really fun. If you want to build one total cost of the ituner is ca. $400/node. You can do much better than this but you give up the convenient compact flash port and the display, but see: http://www.idotpc.com/TheStore/Desktop/837Spec.asp?Product.id=837&Cate.id=19 $219 including RAM. I'm going to try to post some pictures to www.9grid.net tonight. ron