Alienware now makes fastest GIMPS machines out there?
 

Now you can truly be the first to own the new Alienware Area-51m, the ultimate mobile gaming machine. Alienware is offering the first new Area-51m on eBay. The winning bidder will become the proud owner of the fastest mobile gaming machine (and GIMPS machine :) ) on the planet even before it is offered for sale.
-ebay item 3428877889

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3428877889

It is hard to tell if you are paying for the signature :confused: , the "first of" hahaha at your friends, or the actual specs. But i can tell you one thing, that machine could definitely run Prime95 w/ that 3.2ghz P4 :) .

I wonder at that price could we build a GIMPS super computer :confused: .

For $15K, we could run 35~40 computers with 1.5GHz celerons, and alternate monitor usage to check progress, which for our purposes I think would do better than 1 computer running a 3.2GHz P4.

I'll bet that "laptop" has a battery life of about 20 minutes.


[quote="tom11784"]For $15K, we could run 35~40 computers with 1.5GHz celerons, and alternate monitor usage to check progress, which for our purposes I think would do better than 1 computer running a 3.2GHz P4.[/quote]

A monitor, who needs a monitor? You just install linux on all of them and telnet in when you need to make adjustments to the client.

Telnet? Oh the horror! :) :sick:

eh to telnet :yucky: - not sure about linux since i've never used it (we need a gasp emoticon) - but you can buy a 15" monitor for like $10 at the right sale

VNC is a nice, user-friendly freeware solution. So simple even I can install it. Works on Windoze and UNIX.

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

Forget the monitors!

[quote="kwstone"]Forget the monitors![/quote]
[pedant] Well, presumably you need [i]one[/i] monitor! Otherwise, even with VNC, you're not going to be able to see a thing! :) [/pedant]

[quote="tom11784"]For $15K, we could run 35~40 computers with 1.5GHz celerons, and alternate monitor usage to check progress, which for our purposes I think would do better than 1 computer running a 3.2GHz P4.[/quote]
Well, it is back down to $11k. The person who bid $15k had their bid canceled, due to that person being a "Self-Proclaimed Bogus Bidder".

so down to only 30 1.5 celeries?

dont the celerons get bad timings on 25M and up :confused: ? We would need some Northwood P4's :) .

Wouldn't be hard to build at least 30 Northwood P4 boxes for $11,000 - WITH KVMs and a monitor or two.

1.8's overclock nicely, or possibly 2.4C's though in smaller numbers....

HEY :) !! Even though its bid is around $11,000, we could get [size=24][b]FREE SHIPPING!!![/b][/size]
:D :rolleyes: