From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] nice hardware for a cpu server In-Reply-To: <37641.192.11.226.116.1075762906.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:04:20 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cb9eefda-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 vdharani@infernopark.com wrote: > 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? I keep looking. There is a knee in the cost curve, and it always seems to center around PC-like boards that use the standard PC power supply connectors -- no big surprise, right? The volume drives it all. All the world's a PC. Even if you go to a 5V only board you immediately double the price. It's really amazing. ron