A 26.25 gigaflop supercomputer from scratch, for only $2,500. Fact or fiction? Find out for yourself!

I'd just buy a PS3. I'm still not convinced about its merits as a gaming console, but as a supercomputer, it's pretty good value for the money.

If 4 duel core PC's connected over a GB LAN is a supercomputer, we got a huge one at work. I suppose the only interesting aspect of this is that he packed them all into a relatively small space.

I'm finding that I've got a bit of a supercomputer on my hands with this dual 8800GTX SLI configuration.

One algorithm that I ported to the GPU runs approximately 95x faster than on a single-core P4 2.4GHz with SSE2 optimizations. The two cards were about $1600 altogether.

You mean it's a cluster like:
MiniItx cluster
Humidor cluster
or
MsnTV2 Linux cluster

The only difference seems to be using a newer microAtx motherboard and thus supporting a choice of CPUs.

Andy

Interesting application, but is it worth the name supercomputer? The best supercomputers in the world are at 100TFlops, which is 400 times faster :)

Any idea how much gflops a processor like an intel Core 2 Duo E6600 currently has? Googling this turned out to be difficult, CPU's aren't really measured in gflops...