I looked at something kinda similar a little bit ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303483 Jeff Geerlin

I looked at something kinda similar a little bit ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303483 Jeff Geerling made a $3000 raspberry pi cluster and shared the linpack scores, so I looked at when it’d hit different spots in the top500 list. He’d have won from ‘93 to June ‘96, and then been knocked out of the top 10 in November ‘97. That’s with a pretty substantial constraint, making it out of raspberry pi’s, and a lower budget. With $5000, and your pick of chips… I bet you could hit the turn of the century…