[Gllug] Is this a silly idea?

[John Hearns]

On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 18:53 +0100, John Winters wrote:

> 
> It's occurred to me to try an alternative approach.  I envisage two
> boxes - one a fairly powerful server which is actually switched off most
> of the time.  The second a very low power unit (probably a disk-less,
> 500 MHz Mini-ITX also functioning as firewall and print server) which
> wakes up the main box using Wake On Lan when needed.

Ideas like that are kicked around for big compute clusters.
Save on your power/air conditioning if nodes are running idle.
Keep the nodes down and bring them up when needed.
WOL is a good idea, you could also use an IPMI card or an intelligent
switched power unit.



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