Not sure if this will work for your computing needs, but take a look at the NVIDIA Tesla coprocessor. http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html Basically, its 240 processor cores on a single PCIe board. Great for highly parallel computation. Also, its cheap.. around $1500 or so. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com<mbmiller%2Bl at gmail.com> > wrote: > We want to put together a few computers to make a little "farm" for doing > our statistical analyses. It would be good to have 50-100 cores. What is > the cheapest way to go? About 4GB RAM per core should be more than > enough. I'm thinking quad-core chips are going to be cheaper. How many > sockets per mobo? I guess 1-, 2- and 4-socket mobos are available. We > don't need SMP, but we'll take it if it is cheap (which I doubt). We'll > use cloned HDDs in these boxes. My first thought is "blade" but maybe > blades are more expensive than somewhat less convenient ways of housing > the mobos. > > We have people here to house it and manage it and to pay for > electricity(!). They also will have ideas about what we should buy. > > Any ideas? > > Which CPU gives the most flops/dollar these days? > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090707/b2b61605/attachment.htm