Win Your Own Personal Linux Cluster!
- Published on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 09:54
- Written by Administrator
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Impress your friends, discover new things, solve problems, all in the comfort of your home or office.
For the past four years I have been bending, drilling, and swearing at
pieces of sheet metal. My goal? To create a personal cluster by cramming four MicroATX motherboards into
a single PC case with a single power supply. I also wanted a true desk side unit that was
low cost, cool, quiet, provided some serious FLOPS, and of course looked good.
Development efforts were successful and have spawned a commercial version of the Limulus personal cluster. The current version achieved 200 GFLOPS running HPL (the Top500 linpack benchmark). Keep in mind, these are general purpose CPU FLOPS from off-the-shelf hardware and not GPU FLOPS.
There is plenty more to write about, but for now there are two important things to remember:
- You can win a Limulus Personal Cluster! Enter here by filling out the survey.
- You can find more technical information on the project site.
Hurry the drawling is on January 5th 2012. Update: the contest has been extended until January 20th, 2012. It was suggested to wait until the spring semester starts at most colleges and universities. We hear you.
