Hey Russ, bet you cant assimilate these two cubes...

[vss1980]

Super Cubes 🙂

 

[vss1980]

Technically these things could do:
250.5 Mk/sec <- RC5
501 MNodes/sec <- OGR
2.02 MRays/sec <- GF

 

[Russ]

Damn, I think I'm a sicko. I was getting aroused reading the article.😉

Russ, NCNE

 

[Ken g6]

Of course you realize for the same $1,000,000 you could get something like 1000 dual Celeron 600s, overclock to say 800MHz, and do ...

11.04 TNodes/sec :Q,
32 MRays/sec 🙂, or
4.48 Gk/sec 😀.

 

[BurntKooshie]

Hey Russ, bet you cant assimilate these two cubes...

Don't tempt him:Q...

on second thought....🙂

 

[Adul]

why not do with durons at 950 🙂

 

[JHutch]

OK, I don't know why I spent the time to figure this out, but ...

PCNUT.COM would cost about $350 for a pre-tested Duron (pre-tested to 900) with 32 MB, a floppy, and a power supply. (This is actually OVER-estimating for fudge factor.) Klinux is free.

For $1 million, you could have 2857 Duron nodes (we won't go into electrical costs or storage space....) This equates to:

2571300 MHz of Duron cracking power.

That means:

8.74 Gk/sec of RC5 power = 2,813,872 wu a day
20.82 TNodes/sec of OGR power = 1,799,498 Gnodes a day
71.99 MRays/sec of Gamma power = 2,488,195 rays a day

So basically, one of you guys needs to fork over your trust fund and help out the team! With a million dollars, we can crush the DPC easily! 😉

JHutch

 

[Kilowatt]

<< ...one of you guys needs to fork over your trust fund and help out the team! >>

I'll get right on it. 🙂

 

[Diffusion]

Your otta luck with the celerons, only the original P2 based ones can run in SMP. Plus a 600 - 800 would be a standard OC on a P3, but not a celeron, did you mean P3?

 

[networkman]

Ken_g6,

What you say is true.. but I'm also willing to bet that the SRC6 machine(s) will consumer FAR LESS electricity to run than would a thousand celerons!!

Admittedly, if I had a million dollars to spend on distributed computing for TA just for the fun of it, I wouldn't buy an SRC6 either.. I'd probably go with some 8-way Xeon servers from Dell or something similar... maybe even(shudder), some Dual G4 Macs.

 

[Russ]

If I had a million to spend on the project, I'd take the easy way out. I'd contact Google.com and offer it to them to &quot;rent&quot; their 4000 node Linux cluster until the end of the contest. No muss, no fuss, no leftover parts.

Russ, NCNE