Is it possible to build a 8 core Beowulf cluster using four motherboard and a gigabyte network switch for a portable supercomputer which can be plunged into a slandered 120V wall outlet with a high performance/cost ratio of $100/Gflopthat and that too for less than $2500?
Calvin College CS professor Joel Adams and student Tim Brom Claiming to break below the USD$100/Gflop price point has provided world’s lowest price-performance ratio supercomputers.
Among the smallest and least expensive supercomputers, Microwulf, can process 26.25 gigaflops per second.
With such a small size, it boasts — $100/Gflopthat too at a cost of $2,470.
Now researched could hope to get rid of fumbling and sharing a huge supercomputers as they can have their personal one. It has become approachable for not only huge organizations, but also for school labs and classrooms with low power supply.
Still more, too much number-crunching for an ordinary desktop to handle, either because its processor is too slow, or because it doesn’t have enough memory, has become the planets most affordable supercomputer.
Furthermore, inventors have left a detailed description on Cluster monkey so anybody in this field could build their own portable supercomputer.
