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Showing posts with label clusters. Show all posts
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Sunday, 5 August 2012

Dream Machines

Posted on 15:05 by Unknown
One of the few magazines I subscribe to is MaximumPC, and I got around to reading part of the latest issue, which is this Dream Machine issue.  I could not help but imagine how incredible such a machine would be or crunching BOINC projects, though at about 14-15 thousand USD, it is definitely completely out of my price range.   It used an 8 core Xeon chip, which some googling indicates that it
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