Abstract :
A US professor has built a high-performance computer that sits on a desktop and cost only $2,470 to construct. It now could be built for just $1,255. Calvin College professor Joel Adams and former student Tim Brom began constructing Microwulf late last 2006. Microwulf, the name of which derives from NASA´s 1994 supercomputer cluster known as Beowulf, performs at 26.25 gigaflops. Microwulf measures just 11x12 x 17 inches. The increasing power and decreasing size of the parallel-processing multicore chips that Microwulf uses enabled Adams to make the computer fast yet small.
Keywords :
multiprocessing systems; parallel processing; Microwulf; high-performance computer; parallel-processing multicore chips; Analog computers; Costs; Digital images; Displays; FCC; Frequency; High performance computing; Image converters; Pixel; Shape; e-wallpaper; high-performance computers; thin client technology; wireless technology;
