Massive parelell old junk

From: Wirehead Prime <wirehead_at_retrocomputing.com>
Date: Wed Jan 27 20:45:17 1999

> perform it easy, but as you said, there is a hack value, and see
> it from a 1984 perspective, it _will_ be a huge power in that
> seting. A cluster of 64 working nodes (plus some 20 communication
> nodes) might produce a peek performance of 18 MIPS(6502) - that
> can be near a 20 MHz 386 (or 486) - and a 20 MHz 386 was _way_
> out of reach at that time.

I've been building a Beowulf cluster out of discarded 486 and Pentium
junk. Even got a 64 port hub to connect the thing. I expect to be below
the 10.9 gflops reported so far by at least an order of magnitude. But
that's hardly the point. That's most why nobody's heard from me on the
list lately. =-D

Anthony Clifton - Wirehead
Received on Wed Jan 27 1999 - 20:45:17 GMT