From: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...>
Date: 2007-09-13T09:39:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: What Linux distribution to choose for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Reid Thompson wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
>> Not lucky -- your needs are more commonplace than mine. I use
>> highly-optimized chip-level numerical and symbolic libraries and
>> applications, play around with all the exotic languages, and just in
>> general try to break stuff that most folks can't even spell. ;)
>>
>> Back in 1990 they told me I'd have a supercomputer on my desktop and I
>> scoffed. Well, the biggest thing you could get back then was around 10
>> GFlops, and that's just about what I get out of my dual-core Athlon64
>> right now. But the biggest thing you can get now is about a petaflop.
>> And so it goes ...
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> heh,
> you should check out
> 
> http://www.trekunited.com/community/index.php?showtopic=14814
> 
> 26.25 gigaflops for $2500
the 'official'?? writeup ( small enough to fit on your desk ;) )

http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/211/1/