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ZDNet: Building Your Own Supercomputer

“Suppose you wanted to build your own super computer–one
capable of running realistic problems using standard ‘codes’ in
areas like bio-computing, climatology, or geophysics–what would it
take?

“The currently favored approach to this is to get as many
Opteron cores as you can pay for, rack em up with appropriate
storage, and run the whole thing as either a Linux or Solaris
grid…”

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