-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/12 23:14, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> I don't think they even bother with a proper enclosure per > motherboard. Over the counter, commodity, cheap, almost hardware > agnostic. A Google talk I went to a few years back confirmed that's the case (or rather, lack of a case IYSWIW) for their nodes in their search clusters, but they did make the point they use more standard hardware for the services they make money from (like advertising) to get better reliability. Whether that's still the case, I don't know. cheers! Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBNXbgACgkQO2KABBYQAh9qVgCeJnjX+yi0Lp5aq2W0dPD8Aovu a6kAnRiXr7y/AXbybjs5U549CpM/zx9Z =1K1G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
