Re: w00t Beta Testing w00t
It's a....well a it's.....a...Damn if I really know.
Its a $1000 quad processor I guess. 1st board is the master, and the other four are slaved to it. As programmed, it took folding@home work units apart and split the work between the four slaves. When it was synced, it returned results at a rate of more than 4 times the speed of the master working alone. Slaves are ram drive systems with 512mrg drives and 64megs of system memory. Master has 128 megs of ram and a 100gig raid 5 ide array. All cpu's are XP3000-266's. Main boards are VIA 400 chipset biostar's ($32 each) with hacked bios flashes. All ran nix. Never could get it to stay in sync for more than about 18 hours. Ended up running it as 5 2K blade servers in a cluster with good results. But it cost about $10 a day to run, so I lost interest at about 40K worth of units.
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