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Story: Xbox clusters up at Linux Expo

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Posted by: Lincoln DeCoursey (Tuesday 14 October 2003, 6:23 PM)

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My results with the distributed.net RC5-72 challenge:
Xbox running Ed's debian: 1.5 million keys/second.
Dual Xeon 2.8GHz: 7.8 million keys/second.
Therefore 5 Xboxes (total $750) would perform the same
amount of computation as one Dual Xeon 2.8GHz ($1500).

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