1 Gflop for less than $100

This is wonderful news indeed; probably, every computational lab in IISc and IITs can afford as many supercomputers as the number of students!

Microwulf is a personal, portable Beowulf cluster, providing over 26 Gflops of measured performance, for less than $2500. Its dimensions are just 11″ x 12″ x 17″, making it small enough to fit on one’s desktop or in a suitcase.

Microwulf was designed and built by Calvin CS professor Joel Adams and senior Tim Brom.

I learnt about Microwulf via /. The Microwulf page also gives the details of the design and hardware; at present, Microwulf is apparently running Ubuntu.