Low power Cluster you would like to have.

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http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/

Nice, but the designer failed to mention WHY THE HELL he got into
trouble designing this toy. Not a word about any real word use beside
being ideal acatemic project by itselfe :)

PS: Using IBM Microdrives is not a cost wise solution. Those beasts are
sooo expensive (agaim maybe its just me and my weird country).

Pozdrawiam.
 
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/

Nice, but the designer failed to mention WHY THE HELL he got into
trouble designing this toy. Not a word about any real word use beside
being ideal acatemic project by itselfe :)
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Who knows what the designers had in mind, but it would be a great
thing for computers if the world of hackers took an interest in
parallel computing. Whether the machine is capable of much of
anything or not (and this one probably isn't) is almost beside the
point.

If people could figure out how to be clever about parallel computing
with toys, it's easy enough to replace the toy processors with
something more muscular. As it is, most of the money has been going
into buying ever larger collections of fairly high-end processors and
not much into figuring out how to use them other than how to bull your
way through to a whatever simulation or data analysis all those
processors were bought for.

A little more pointless play would be a good thing, IMHO.

RM
 
RusH said:
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/

Nice, but the designer failed to mention WHY THE HELL he got into
trouble designing this toy. Not a word about any real word use beside
being ideal acatemic project by itselfe :)

PS: Using IBM Microdrives is not a cost wise solution. Those beasts are
sooo expensive (agaim maybe its just me and my weird country).
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I bought one of those for a friend's camera a while ago.
$57 (USD) including shipping to Moose Jaw, Canada. I just
went back to that site for a price check and the price has
come down a little more since then. (www.consumerdepot.com)



He could have gotten 40 GB EIDE drives for that price, but
storage capacity wasn't his concern - he wanted cool power-efficient
drives to boot the compute nodes from. The only node that needed
lots of storage was the control node.
 
Rob Stow said:
I bought one of those for a friend's camera a while ago.
$57 (USD) including shipping to Moose Jaw, Canada. I just
went back to that site for a price check and the price has
come down a little more since then. (www.consumerdepot.com)
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yep, its me again, price of Microdrive at my local vendor compares to
XP 2000 :/
He could have gotten 40 GB EIDE drives for that price
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He could have gotten 128MB CF cards much cheaper.

Pozdrawiam.
 
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