I never win anything, so... law of averages!

Cooler Master 690
7x Cooler Master 120mm fans
160GB prim. HDD
1TB media storage (4x Western Digital 55GB HDD, RAID 0+1, non-parity)
AMD 3200+
Abit NFS-series mobo
2GB Kingston DDR2 800
Cooler Master Gemini II CPU chiller
Zallman fan controller
SB0200 (salvaged Dell OEM)
Asus TOP Nvidia 8500GT, 256MG GDDR3, 600MHz
Antec Earthwatts 430 PSU
Dell & Sharp 19" LCD monitors

help.

How would it kill their real-books sales? These e-books have marginal overhead, in comparison, and no real shipping cost. Hosting out electronic copies of books as a (possible) major business segment should be giving them tingles. Think about it - one single copy of a book, sold MILLIONS of times. No shipping. No Handling. No storage. No purchasing the product from vendors. Except once. These books sold at a handful of dollars per could blow away their real-books sales in a few months, and - to them - IT WOULDN'T MATTER.

SAMUS

boo $, yay freebies!

*Falls to knees and hopes/begs*

*Falls to knees and hopes/begs*

If someone saw you cruising down the shoulder on a Segway, you know they'd run you over on purpose.

[All beowulf clusters are "reliant on the shared power of multiple computers processing cooperatively" lol ]

I defined the functionality of beowulf clustering for the sake of those who may not be familiar (it's a gadget site, not an exclusively computer-tech site, regardless of the obvious overlap)


[I built a Beowulf cluster recently.]

whee. good for you. me too. I donated it to my school to host sites for student organizations that needed dynamic content hosting and heavy transactional (non-monetary) processing.
What's yours do?

When's the last time you (or any of us) actually built a Beowulf cluster, as opposed to using them for jokes? This system is reliant on the shared power of multiple computers processing cooperatively. Simple, and I (hope) you know how that goes. The innovation comes from a) tying together modern mobos in a beowulf cluster, b) doing so on the cheap, c) doing so in a wonderfully compact form factor. Another key here is that this is a student's research endevour, so give the kid some credit for doing something that you haven't.