22.7GHz Vegetable Powered PCs

The Alameda County Computer Resource Center has taken 31 recycled computers, powered by a generator that burns vegetable oil, and clustered them into a 22.7GHz supercomputer. The group also refurbishes PCs for schools and disadvantaged people. Pretty damn nifty.

The cluster from the Maker Faire consisted of 31 PCs with a sum total processing power of 22.7 GHz and an average 733 MHz per node. Their peak power consumption on their vegetable-oil-powered generator was about 30A.