Teen Builds 64-Node Cluster in Parents' Garage Posted by Rotundo on Friday October 15, @06:22PM EDT from the imagine-a-beowulf-cluster-of-these dept. NodeNinja writes "A 16-year-old in Ohio has built a 64-node cluster out of discarded 486s and Pentium 75s collected from local businesses upgrading for Y2K. It runs Linix and PVM, heats the garage through the winter, and according to the builder's father, 'has made the electric meter spin like a ceiling fan.'" Finally, a story where the joke has already been made for you in the department line. Teen Builds 64-Node Cluster in Parents' Garage | Login/Create an Account | Top | 16 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: -1: 16 comments 0: 15 comments 1: 12 comments 2: 8 comments 3: 7 comments 4: 3 comments 5: 3 comments NestedFlatThreadedNo Comments Oldest FirstNewest FirstHighest Scores First The fine print: the following comments belong to whoever typed them. Dashdot takes no responsibility for them, and frankly, neither do most of the people who typed them. Y2K upgrades are a goldmine by Anonymous Coward (Score:0) Re:Y2K upgrades are a goldmine by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15, @06:37PM EDT (#3) Agreed. Couldn't have said it better myself. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Power bill by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15, @06:47PM EDT (#4) 64 nodes at maybe 60 watts each is close to 4 kW. At 8 cents a kilowatt-hour that's more than $200 a month. Dad is a saint. [ Reply to This ] Re:Power bill by Rotundo on Friday October 15, @06:59PM EDT (#5) (User Info) The parent's point stands, though: it depends entirely on the use case. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Power bill by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15, @07:03PM EDT (#6) Citation needed. Where are you getting these numbers? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Power bill by ParanoidPolly on Friday October 15, @08:02PM EDT (#11) (User Info) Says the guy posting at 3am on a Tuesday. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Power bill by sysadmin_steve on Friday October 15, @08:05PM EDT (#12) (User Info) Wait until you see the next version. It's going to be worse. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Power bill by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15, @07:47PM EDT (#9) Did you even read the parent post? He said the opposite. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Hype by ladybug_lisp on Friday October 15, @07:16PM EDT (#7) (User Info) The hype-to-substance ratio on this one is pretty high. Let's see it running in production before we all get excited. [ Reply to This ] My experience by ladybug_lisp on Friday October 15, @07:29PM EDT (#8) (User Info) I've been working in this industry for 15 years, and I can tell you that this kind of thing comes around every five years with a new name. The underlying ideas don't change much; the marketing does. [ Reply to This ] Imagine a... by RTFM_Ralph on Friday October 15, @08:12PM EDT (#14) (User Info) Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters. Okay, I'll stop. [ Reply to This ] Read the article by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15, @08:20PM EDT (#15) Did anyone actually read the article? Half the comments here are answering questions that are answered in the second paragraph. [ Reply to This ] Links by modem_mike on Friday October 15, @08:21PM EDT (#16) (User Info) For anyone who wants to read more, the original announcement is on their site and there's a good technical write-up in the newsgroups. Search for it, the link is too long to paste. [ Reply to This ] 4 replies beneath your current threshold. Show them all (threshold -1).

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