I think I found my next project...

you know what? Fuck cars, this is going to be so much more fun - let alone cheaper and easier.

This guy has built a 24 - TWENTY FOUR - Core Linux Cluster to dramatically decrease rendering times. At the bottom of the page he mentions;

I'll do a better page as soon... or I build the Red Helmer II Would be fun to use the AMD 16 core Bulldozer cpu x 6 = 96 core in a box ))

I was thinking, there are 2 ways I can go about this, either, build a very low-power cluster that has the highest speed:power ration possible, or jam 128 cores into this mother fucker, just for the sake of it. In all honesty, the former sounds a better - not to mention cheaper - idea, but that would be regulated to about 12-18 cores, depending on how it is put together. Most likely dual-cores on dual-CPU boards, with 2GB/core. If configured correctly, it should be able to be done through one boot drive, and the other boards booting using network (PXE/NFS). Not sure what I would use it for though - probably add it to my BOINC account.

Time to start working out how this monster would be put together. Will mention it again once I get somewhere with it.

Scuzzmonkey.