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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Lawrence who wrote (7816)	6/6/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: BenYeung	Respond to of 14778

My idea of a dream machine is having multiple multiprocessor PCs (at least 4 and at most 16) forming a Beowulf cluster controlled by a central 8-way server all running Linux 2.2, interconnected by Gigabit Ethernet switches. With this setup, I can do a couple gigaflops of calculations per sec for QuakeIII 3d rendering and surf the net at amazing speed!!! On a serious note, who need a PC more than 300Mhz?!?!? I quad-boot my AMD K6-2 300Mhz running Win98 (for games), WinNT (which I only use for Windows programming), Win2000(which I don't use at all) and Redhat Linux 6.0 (which I run everyday), and I found no need for anything faster. Who cares for a few milliseconds of processing time when most of the things you do is play games and surf SI? A fast machine, would help for graphics developer (which I am not) and programmer (which I am, but I write scripts more than compiled code). For most home users, I see no point for getting the state-of-the-art machines.