On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:59:42PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > here's an idea, more commodity-oriented (hence beowulf): suppose you > design a tiny widget that gets all its power via POE. maybe Atom or > ARM-based - you've got 15-20W, which is quite a bit these days. > for packaging, you need space for a cpu, nic and sodimm. maybe some leds. > > plug them into a commodity 1U 48-port Gb switch, then stack 10 of them > and you've got a penny-pincher's approximation of a Seamicro SM100000! > > not going to win top500, but...
I was planning to do something similar with rooted Apple TV, once it's bumped up to A5 in the next generation. The devices would need spacers, a baffle and a few fans, if packed closely. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
