[FRIAM] Practical Parallelism

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Carl Tollander wrote:
>     Buy one or two reasonably well tricked out multi-core machines 
> early, don't go nuts on the HPC
>     requirements until we have a better handle on how to get one or two 
> machines to make use of those
>     cores for the kinds of problems we expect to want to address.
>   
Or something like this that takes Socket F Opterons...

http://www.microway.com/navion8.html

An upgrade to a quad core Opteron would make that a 32 processor system.
And you'll need to think about air conditioning once you got this many 
processors.
A couple tons at least.