x88x
09-08-2010, 02:23 PM
So, this guy a while back made a kickass graphing calculator out of a Beagleboard and a nice sized monochrome screen. I guess it wasn't quite powerful enough for his liking, so he made this Beagleboard cluster-in-a-briefcase running (iirc) the same software, and it apparently outperforms his laptop.
I'm not so sure this is a useful cost-benefit balance given that the whole setup cost ~$2,000USD, but I thought it was cool. :P I do wish he had shown the power usage while it was actually doing something though...and actually done a proper job making a case for it..
http://hackaday.com/2010/09/07/beagleboard-cluster/
...I have to point this out because I'm picky like that, but in the article he mentions that this thing outperforms his "$4,500 laptop"...that is not a $4,500 laptop... The laptop in question is a Lenovo Thinkpad X201, which even if you max it out with an i7-860, 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD, 'only' comes to a tad over $2,500. ...anyways, enough with me picking apart his claims, just go read the article. :P
I'm not so sure this is a useful cost-benefit balance given that the whole setup cost ~$2,000USD, but I thought it was cool. :P I do wish he had shown the power usage while it was actually doing something though...and actually done a proper job making a case for it..
http://hackaday.com/2010/09/07/beagleboard-cluster/
...I have to point this out because I'm picky like that, but in the article he mentions that this thing outperforms his "$4,500 laptop"...that is not a $4,500 laptop... The laptop in question is a Lenovo Thinkpad X201, which even if you max it out with an i7-860, 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD, 'only' comes to a tad over $2,500. ...anyways, enough with me picking apart his claims, just go read the article. :P