hrrm i wonder where they got the design for the x5a from? https://www.google.com/search?q=sgi+tezro&tbm=isch
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Prentice Bisbal <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
