[plug] Hey, what about a Beowulf cluster of these...?

[Leon Brooks]

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2424

    MandrakeSoft today introduces a new product in the field of
    supercomputing: "MandrakeClustering". Designed to meet the
    high-demands of clustering solutions inside research
    laboratories and other compute-intensive industries,
    MandrakeClustering is an achievement of the CLIC research
    project (including partners such as Bull) which offers both
    high calculation performance plus unequaled comfort of use.
    Some typical uses of MandrakeClustering include crash
    simulations, acoustics, seismic modeling, risk analysis, etc. 

    MandrakeClustering is provided as a complete solution, which
    includes the software product plus various support options.
    The list price begins at 2,960 USD/Euros. Supported
    architectures currently include AMD® Opteron®, Intel®
    Pentium® and compatible processors (IA-64 support to come
    later in September).

Reading between the lines and hearking back to earlier Mandrake 
practice, you should be able to get most if not all of it without the 
support for $0 - but that would be a silly option for a supercomputing 
centre.

Cheers; Leon