lol.  no you need sun fire 10000 for this :)
90 cpus and 10 terabytes of ram 

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Jim C wrote:

> I'm not entirely sure but this might be the sort or thing a MOSIX 
> cluster would be good for.
> 
> Jim C.
> 
> et wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote:
> > 
> >>I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and
> >>use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ).
> >>Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized
> >>for sse2 then get pentium4. If not, then get dual athlon mp.
> >>Get at least 2gb of ram, the faster the better.  I always use athlons,
> >>because they work 3 times faster with floating point, but you may not need
> >>that.
> >>
> >>On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, et wrote:
> >>
> >>> just got a very nice deal to build a box (in the next couple of months,
> >>>quality is much more important than fast delivery) to run a sound 
> >>>recording studio. I would love to hear suggestions. Budget is to be less
> >>>than $10,000.00 USD delivered, not including (professional) software. or
> >>>sound card (will have an Audigy, but the studio owner has some other card
> >>>he wants in the box along with the Audigy, and that card was over
> >>>$900.00USD. I figure for about that I ought to be able to create a pretty
> >>>nice and fast box. this box should be UFW scsi2 raid I guess, and I would
> >>>love some first hand knowledge of fast-wide scsi2 cards and drives. I am
> >>>also wondering about places I should be looking to check out some quad
> >>>zeon mother boards.
> >>
> > thanks this is exactly the kinda discussion I was hoping for. got any good 
> > clues as to what chipsets to look for, or stay away from? I think (pretty 
> > damn sure) they want a SMP board of some sort. 
> > 
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