[Gllug] Beagle Board

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Mon Jan 12 10:43:33 UTC 2009


Peter Corlett wrote:
>  From a slow ARM chip with limited memory and storage and no  
> networking? What an awesome cluster that would be!

so, perhaps a routerboard based setup ?

> There's a chap down the TCR markets who has a pile of old IBM desktops  
> for £50 that look rather more suited to clustering experiments.

Those sort of machines are a waste of space, power and money - might as 
well get a half decent quad core desktop for £400 rather than 8 of those 
machines. And the quad core will run 8 vm's mostly faster than what 
those 8 machines will.


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