this just crawled out of the press release basket http://www.rocketcalc.com
announced that they are now selling the "RedStone" desktop cluster. which is an 8-way cluster of 1Ghz pentium processors in a mid tower box standard unit is priced at 6k USD (ouch!) I have an application in mind that would be perfect though. Larry's weird data-parallel monster app. 1. poll gnutella, napster billboard etc. for most popular tunes matched to demographics 2. pull in mp3's or ogg's of the tunes in question. 3. run the music files through a feature extraction engine to get a coded representation of the song (this is the hard part) 4. use one of several varieties of optimization algorithms to produce new songs treating the set of codes produced in step 3 as a training set. Voila! instant hit parade generic music that does not violate any copyrights. http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking
