berg bracht een linkje naar dit artikel van Linux World, over de 2000 processors tellende Linux boerderij van Incyte Genomics. Deze data mining toko verkoopt rekencapaciteit aan bedrijven die genetisch onderzoek verrichten. Dankzij het gebruik van een Linux cluster met goedkope PC's kan Incyte tegen een fractie van de kosten een hogere capaciteit bieden als bij het gebruik van high-end Sun en Alpha systemen:
The upshot is that Incyte can do jobs that would have been absolutely financially unthinkable before. The company now has about 20 farms with up to 200 processors each. Each farm behaves like a supercomputer, at about one-hundredth of the price -- or less. These farms can do those five-and-a-half-year gene sequencing projects in six weeks, which is faster than anyone else in the world. And if you've been following the news, you know it's pretty much a flat-out race right now to sequence and patent genes. Incyte's biggest competitor, Celera, recently crowed that at 298 processors, it had the biggest clustered network outside the Department of Defense. Stu Jackson just shakes his head. Incyte has 2,000 machines in its clustered network this week, and will have perhaps another 500 by the end of March. Slapping in a new farm is as easy as, say, getting a new client.
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(Wel hoe sneller hoe beter)