-snip- > > What was the name of the trash can you used? It obviously made a > convenient sized enclosure, but aside from that, why was it chosen? > Cheap? You happened to have one? > > Was there a compactor mechanism inside that had to be gutted?
We originally tried to acquire a BigBelly (http://bigbellysolar.com/) but could not afford it... the RubberMaid 9P90 looked the most like a BigBelly so we went with that... > > Did you build custom bracketing for the switches, USB hubs, and Pandaboards? Yes, modeled on a 15 node design by a Raspberry Pi developer we met... http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/categories/23-PandaBoard-Planet USB hubs were Koutech 13-port hubs and we used USB to power the Pandas. > > Any comment on the many-core ARM parts that have been mentioned on this > list previously? Do they lack the floating point hardware necessary to > be interesting for this use? > We are waiting with anticipation on the availability of the ARMv8 architecture (64 bit) and ARM Cortex-A15, which may be out in Qualcomm-based cell phones already. > > Aside from the Pandaboard and Beagle board, are any of these things > real? If so, they weren't mentioned. > We strayed from the agenda a bit for sure... appropriate links are... http://designsomething.org/ and http://raymii.org/cms/p_Small_Linux_PCs_overview > I had the impression there was going to be more hardware demoed than > just what Federico brought. (I guess Michael had 2 or 3 items.) Was it > impractical to bring in the supercomputer? Was a Pandaboard shown, other > than in the video? There was to be more... I forgot the Trimslice at home, the Cotton Candy didn't come in and we decided not to show the Makey Makey... http://www.makeymakey.com/ > > The video talked some about the supercomputer hardware, but not in much > depth. A walk-through of the architecture, interconnects, and software > would have been nice. Was the presentation light on these details > because you covered this ground in prior years? Was this talk mostly > just a "here's where we're at now" update on the previous talks, rather > than meant to stand on its own? Yes, an interim report... we are't where we want to be yet but this was a good waypoint. > > I did like that Brian explained some of the motivation and practical > benefit to a project like this - being able to house a supercomputer in > a regular office environment without needing special cooling, power, or > it generating excessive noise. > > Thanks Kurt and Brian for sharing your project with the group. Yup... Brian and I will be populating a website with more info soon. Sorry, we were just flat out for a couple of days there!
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