Beowulfers, Have any of you seen these computers from Xi3 yet? I've been getting e-mails from them for some time now. I'm assuming they got my e-mail address from SC12. Anyway, instead of just blindly deleting the one I received yesterday, I decided to actually check out their products. They're tiny, energy efficient computers in sexy packaging.
http://www.xi3.com They have an X7A model that's supposed to be as powerful as a full-size desktop (it's being marketed to gamers), but be extremely energy efficient. If you could put enough of them together, you could possibly create a relatively dense, energy efficient cluster. They must have the same idea in mind already, because they are working on the Xi3 Datacent3r, a small mobile 'datacenter', which you can see at the bottom of this news article on their website. http://www.xi3.com/news.php?id=829 Granted, that's only with 1 GbE ethernet, but with their modular design, they could easily provide a 10GbE module or even a IB module. Thoughts? Discussion? -- Prentice _______________________________________________ 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
