well, then

another link http://www.rlx.com/solutions/solutions_clust_mpi.php

and, another

http://www.mpi-softech.com/products/felix/productsheet/Felix-ProductSheet.pdf

Of course, a cluster is only really a step up from a single PC.

The article, here :

http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5055317.html?tag=fd_top

which julio posted about refers to a different, and greatly more powerful animal.

too bad

obsolesence comes in a flash.........and, i think it's exponential............things are just going to .....rocket

Well, in a sense these things age differently from PCs, because they are a completely different kind of computer, created for a very different purpose.

Of course they do age, though. A device like we are talking about has so many more factors go into it than a PC does, and its subject to different kinds of rules.

It also has a completely different set of problems, in some ways, but there is one problem we can never really escape....

HEAT!

Heat is the tormentor of computers, their arch enemy.