[Nottingham] RE: Re: Hardware sought (Chris Burton)

[Jim Moore]

You wrote (reply interspersed):
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http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/ have some Nano stuff. ICP used to do a 5 and 8 
itx board rack mount a while ago but having a quick look I couldn't find 
them on their site anymore.

yeah... had a look there a couple weeks ago. I'm building my own case, with 
12V, KVM and ethernet rails built in - the boards'll be going in in aluminium 
modules with whatever storage allocated to each in the same module. What I'm 
ending up with is a low-power cluster with built-in redundancy.

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Are you sure they are going to be powerful enough? I have one of the quad 
800Mhz itx rack mounts from linitx.com and to be honest I didn't find them 
that powerful.



ChrisB. 

Ooh, got any pix? My email account's binary-friendly...

I'm currently running one board (Epia-M 10000 1GHz/512MB/160GB) as a 
resource/print server on my home net. I find it very responsive, running 
MuLinux with Samba & cups. Hasn't put a foot wrong. OK, by itself, the 1GHz 
chip is only as useful as, say, a Dell L400, but on saying that I've built 
six-node clusters with less that have riddled all over 3GHz P4's in real-life 
applications.

UPDATE: I have a Samsung VM7000 laptop (with no screen) (PIII/700MHz/128MB 
[will be upgrading to 320MB)/10GB [will be upgrading to 80GB]) that I'll be 
using as a controller node. Picked it up for a song on Saturday. Only reason 
I did pick it up was because it comes with a CDROM drive built in. Rare for a 
subnote. So, as of right now I've got the cluster up to two nodes and I 
haven't even built the case yet!

Actually, I haven't configured a terminal server yet either; I'll likely get 
to that tonight.
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