Larry Price wrote:

> which is an 8-way cluster of 1Ghz pentium processors in a mid tower box
> standard unit is priced at 6k USD (ouch!)

I'd rather have Robert X. Cringeley's 12-CPU Athlon cluster, also
priced at $6K (plus significant labor).

        http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20011227.html


> 3. run the music files through a feature extraction engine
> to get a coded representation of the song (this is the hard part)

This is the hard part because it's a hard problem, not because the CPU
power costs money.

If/when you have an algorithm that works, getting the CPUs will be
easy.

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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