How can i make a home supercomputer?

Answer 1

VERY VERY SIMPLE!!!!
Wait till the end of June first, all processors are dropping in price now.
You would probably want AMD
Get a FX-60
2 gbs of RAM, any kind you want, but i would go for some of the most expensive DDR RAM, FX-60 does not support DDR2
2 7900 GTX 512mbs (make sure your motherboard supports SLI, and if it can help overclock well, a good one is the DFI nF4 SLI-DR)
a 100 sum dollar sound card
Vapor Phase Changer (only for CPU cooling, it costs about 1k for a good one)
a 1k Watt Power Supply for PC Power&Cooling
A nice Fanless Water cooling system from Zalman (maybe even 2 for both video cards, your RAM, and your 4 hard drives)
Harddrives: get 4 250gb Harddrive, try to find the ones that are 10,000 RPM or faster

And there is your super computer, try getting Blue Ray cd-rom drives, they are the future of dvd burning and stuff like that.
Pick any case you want, but try a full tower
To make your life easier, get a Vapor Phase Changed case from Lian Li, it will save you quite a bit of custom work., but it cost about 1050 bucks just for that. But once u hook that thing up to your FX-60, you will be hitting 3.4 ghz, easy with taht thing, your temps will still be below 0C

oh and for a super computer
Trying networking 5 or so of these computers up to act as 1
the cost of 1 is probably gonna be around 3500 to 4000
so the total of 5 would be somewhere between 17,500 to 20,000

If you can afford all of this, you will be my hero
oh, another thing is that you can get the new AMD FX-62, requires a special AM2 motherboard, supports DDR2 only
get the Corsair 1ghz RAM for that (fastest stuff)

Answer 2

I don't know how to actually do it. But I have read report on scientist building a supercomputer using 20 xbox playing console. If you have the budget, maybe you can try it out. But first pls do some research on it first, to be sure how to do it before buying the xbox.
Hope this help.:)

Answer 3

you'll never be able to, because a supercomputer is relative to the technology available at the time. So a pocket calculator from today would have been a super computer in the 1950s, follow me?

Answer 4

Get multiple, powerful CPU units and connect them into one big super system.

Answer 5

http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/2278/
http://www.rocksclusters.org
http://aggregate.org

That's the cheap way, clustering Intel/AMD systems running Linux.
Next level is buying multiprocessor blades in a rack.
Next level is buying it from IBM.

Answer 6

lots and lots and lots more of networked computers which act as one....