09-02-2013, 06:12 PM
At retail prices, you could build a proper VCL cluster with nineteen 4x 7990 compute nodes, a cluster controller, and a 24-port InfiniBand switch with required cabling for about 350,000 USD. It would require approximately 38 kW of power.
You could obviously do a milkcrate build for much less, but it would be hard to manage that many milkcrates
You could obviously do a milkcrate build for much less, but it would be hard to manage that many milkcrates