On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:23:08PM +0300, Nicholas M Glykos wrote: > > > > A major advantage of these forthcoming ARM server systems is that > > they are air-coolable, and in fact even convection-aircoolable, > > if you add a suitable funnel on top of the rack. > > > > With SSDs, there are no movable parts. Float power will suck, > > but there are GPGPU options there, and memory bandwidth can > > be quite nice with memory cube like die stacking. > > > It would be lovely to have an article on clustermonkey for such a cluster. > At the very least it would make excellent teaching material [and for > poor-to-broken universities (and countries)] it would even make a putative > mini-research-cluster solution. Apologies for not offering to do it > myself, I wouldn't know where to start from ...
A point of departure would seem to be http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mit_cluster_build&num=1 -- even PV-powered. _______________________________________________ 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
