This baby ( http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7216.msg156703#msg156703 ) is probably 60 times quicker than that slowstra. And it is not even the latest generation of my rigs. At the same it probably cost as much as the slowstra if you take into consideration wages of all those PhD's during many month it took them to build this slowstra thing.

Actually that slowstra is a perfect example of how some uni researchers work. Surely they had lots of fan, spent loads of money on wages for themselves, wasted load of time on collaborating with mb manufacturers, designing and manufacturing custom cases, etc... etc... etc... all this while for a fraction of the price and more importantly time they could have a few 4U off the shelf cases with 2 -3 cards each. A Nx4U system could have been built in just 2-3 days (including waiting for the components to arrive).

Idiots with PhD's... or maybe I am missing something.