Re: [PLUG] PLUG Wireless/ Co-op?

[Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

Aren't the IPCs a bit slow for Paralell computing?

I thought about using banks of IPXs for this purpose, and while the IPXs
are cheap (I can get them about $20 a pop, or even free depending on the
time of year and way the wind is blowing), the memory is becoming more
expensive, and the AUI adaptors are either free or too expensive.  Then
add in wanting a SCSI drive for each one, and the fact that I like to
upgrade the processors at $50 a pop, an old PII starts to get
cheaper.  (and the 100baseT SBUS cards aren't cheap!)

 -- noah silva

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:17:06AM -0400, Noah Silva wrote:
> > btw - which model sparcs do you have?
> 
> "I" is relative. cs.swarthmore.edu owns them, but they're in use for
> a parallel computing research project I started there and still help
> out with. (Which means they're also in use when something's broken
> about NetBSD/sparc that I know I can fix. ;^>)
> 
> We've got three or four IPCs and six or seven ELCs (the processor-in-
> monitor, hard-drive-in-separate-slab black and white machines;
> arguably a JavaStation predecessor, sun4c machine like the IPCs).
> There's an IPX, but I think it belongs to my roommate rather than me
> or the school.
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> 


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