Tonight I was looking at a motherboard I had intended to use for the home theater PC in the living room and figured out that it would be a good manager node for the supercomputer. It's only packing an Athlon XP, but that's still fast as hell for what it will be doing (shuffling data around and screaming at compute nodes)
In addition, I have ten computers in my storage bay that are packing Athlon XP 2000+ CPUs and could be turned into a reasonable cluster by themselves. They aren't fast, but that matters for dick, really, since they were $5 each and I can stock them with a gig of RAM per node for about $15 each. I don't know how I will be able to set them for Coreboot, though.
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