On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 00:47, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > We're building a 1024-node linuxbios cluster with Dual-P4 systems and > Myrinet. No disks on the nodes. Single System Image via bproc. Monitoring > with Supermon. Plus lots of other stuff we hope to be showing in the next > year. LNXI is the vendor. > > In other words, the idea we had 3 years ago has now hit the big time: > > http://www.lnxi.com/cgi-bin/news/newsboy.pl?sa_01=opt_500&sub_cat=0517001537320032 > > So, we did it! I mean all of us -- the people on this list. > > One question I keep getting from the Big Computer Vendors: "how many nodes > will this sell this year? How much money?" Well, this year, linuxbios will > sell at least 2500 or so dual-P4 nodes, not counting all the other types > of nodes currently selling. And, though it is a small number, total > linuxbios cluster node sales this year are over $16M, up from $0M last > year. >
This reminds me the Internet boom !!! Is stocks of LNXI publicly offered ?? Eric, are you Eric So Rich now ?? > Anyway, thanks to all the great people on this list who have contributed > code and ideas over the last 3 years. There are a lot of you, too long to > list at this point, but you all know who you are. WE DID IT! > It is a good sign for LinuxBIOS form bussiness point of view. The is effective demand (someone want to pay) and effective supply (someone can sell real stuff). I expect there will much more deals on LinuxBIOS in the coming years. Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
