[Gllug] Cheapest possible diskless nodes

[John Hearns]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, William Boughton wrote:

> 
> You could buy a LMR810 with a Duron 1200 glued on + fan with a stick
> of 256mb ram for 85 quid last weeks at the computer fair.
> 
> Then it is a simple matter to linuxbios them and you've got a nice
> netbooting compute node.
> 
That was kinda my idea. 
But these VIA Eden boards are SOOO nice...

> I'm considering buying one or 2 of these tomorrow if i'm feeling
> upto going into london.  I'm wondering if i could get away
> with one power supply /2 or more boards?
> 
Hmmmm.
That's part of what I was thinking about - if you just rack up some 
uncased boards to make a cluster, then the power supplies are pretty
bulky. I thought of 1U high power supplies, but these would probably 
be expensive.
Is it a simple matter to split ATX type PSUs between boards, given the
power on/off connectors? And do you have a source for the splitter 
cables?




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