Re: Low cost cluster

[Jonathan Morton]

> > refurbished PowerMac.  I still might.  The cluster would give me an
> >  aggregate 2500 MFLOPS, while a previous-model Mac would give me 3500
>
> how did you get to that #? just wondering. If you're counting on Altivec
> that's a mistake.

I count Altivec because I'm confident the Apple-modified compiler is 
capable of producing code for my present algorithm.  Even if it 
can't, I can write it in fairly easily - I'm no stranger to PPC code.