Bogdan Costescu wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Mark Hahn wrote: > >> I don't know whether there would be any problem putting a real >> interconnect card (10G, IB, etc) into one of these - some are designed >> for GPU cards, so would have 8 or 16x pcie slots. > > Yes, they often have 2 slots, a PCIe 16x one for a graphics card and a > PCIe 1x or PCI one for a TV card (for HTPC use ;-)). > >> there are "book" format SFF's that might do well for the >> gigabit/integrated approach too. > > If raw performance is not your main interest, yes. These often have > previous generation or significantly lower speed CPUs and memory and a > rather bad cooling solution dictated by the space contraints. In > comparison, most "normal" SFFs can take current generation CPUs and memory. > > One advantage coming from their lower speed/power components is that > some of the "book" ones use an external power supply, laptop style, > which generates no noise and eliminates the possibility of broken fans. > >> I wouldn't mention HTPC, though - in stores around here at least that >> term implies a box specialized to look like AV components, often with >> milled aluminum bezel, fancy displays, etc. > > Is there a law against sexy cluster nodes ? :-) > > How about making those fancy displays show a job ID and the current CPU > load ? Would there be any more need for nagios or ganglia ? :-) > >> I think SFF's would be very nice, though probably would mean giving up >> any >> pretense of server-ish-ness, such as dual sockets or IPMI > > I have looked some years ago at such a SFF barebone with 2 CPU sockets > from Iwill. For some reason I couldn't (maybe still can't) get easily > Iwill products here, so I quickly lost interest. But this shows that > someone did think of it and that it's technically possible. However > today, with multi-core CPUs being mainstream, I can't really see a > market case for a SFF with more than one CPU socket. > > IPMI is the one thing that I really miss in these SFF computers. Not so > much for sensors monitoring as for power on/power off/reset and console > redirection. I was hoping that at least the Intel vPro would be adopted > for SFFs... >
What is the capability of EDAC on AM2 and AM2+ CPUs? Does the motherboard chipset impose any limitations? -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
