[sergius]

How about a bus that carries hi speed network and power... and everything running Plan 9 to glue it up together :-)

[kevindamm]

mmm tastes like beowulf

[floren]

In what way? "Beowulf clusters" were built out of off-the-shelf machines connected through relatively normal (if high-speed) networking, running MPI programs on Linux. That's what distinguished them from the more expensive, more custom HPC systems of the day.