Right now, nobody is as cool as Joel Adams and Tim Brom, who designed and built a 26.25 gigaflop supercomputer from scratch. For only $2,500 (about $1,250 today), they built what they’re calling Microwulf, based on four microATX motherboards, each with a dual core CPU and 2GB of RAM. The motherboards all communicate over Gigabit ethernet.
Oh Gizmo! added:
The whole shebang also includes a CD/DVD drive and a 250 gb HD, and runs Ubuntu Linux. Microwulf’s price to performance ratio, as well as its performance to power ratio, is thought to be among the best on the planet, and it’s certainly more portable than any other supercomputer out there.
Microwulf isn’t for sale, but if you want to try to build your own, there’s a complete hardware manifest on the Microwulf website, and ClusterMonkey has a fairly comprehensive article on the design and construction process. Good luck; if you can make it work I’ll buy one from you.
We’ll just have to wait and see when one of these pops up on ebay. If you wanna be the first (well, second) to build one, check out all the specs one the Microwulf web site.
[via Oh Gizmo!]
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