Description	Price (01-01-2001)
CPU	AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz	$200
Motherboard	Tyan Trinity KT (S2390)	$112
Memory	Mushkin 1 Gb PC-133 ECC (Two 512 Mb modules)	$1,186
Hard disk	IBM DTLA-307020 (20.5 Gb 7200 ATA-100)	$123
Floppy disk	TEAC FD-235 HF (1.4 Mb)	$11
NIC (to switch)	Syskonnect SK9821 (1000Base-T)	$450
Video Card	Trident 3DImage975 (4Mb)	$22
Case	Rackmount Equipment Inc RC0404	$380

Our two "master" nodes are identical to our slave nodes, except that they add:

NIC (to Firewall)	SMC Etherpower II 10/100	$50
CD-ROM	Irama 52X	$32
Monitor	Viewsonic GS 815	$825
Keyboard	Logitech Deluxe 104	$13
Mouse	Logitech Wheelmouse Optical	$25

and replace the slave's Trident video card with

Video card

Jaton 3dForce 3DForce B32-Plus (32Mb)

$60

One of our master nodes has a tape back-up system:

Tape Drive

Onstream 15/30Gb Drive

$406

The center of our gigabit ethernet interconnect is a switch from Extreme Networks:

Network Switch

Extreme Networks Summit 7Si (11701)

$16,796

For convenience, our cluster also has these miscellaneous hardware items:

KVM	Two Belkin Omniview Pro 16-port (F1D116-OSD) plus cables	$2500
UPS	Three Tripplite Smart 2200 RM XLs	$2700
Rack	MidAtlantic ERC-4420 Caster Base CBS-ERK-20	$2290

The two KVMs can be daisy-chained together for single-user operation, or disconnected for two-user operation. The Tripplite UPSs are on orange power from a backup generator.