[Bioclusters] Call for information.

Ivo Grosse bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:33:05 -0400


Hi Goran,

I perfectly agree with all ... except:

Goran Ceric <goran@genetics.wustl.edu> wrote on Wed, 17 Apr 2002:
 
> For $256K, you can get yourself ~128-cpu (64 dual PIII, 1U) cluster + 
> networking + rack + everything else,

Haven't you lost a factor of 2?  I thought approximately $2,000$ per 
dual-CPU node would be reasonable, but that would mean approximately 
$1,000 per CPU, correct?

Ivo