Jonathan, > Background: I want to get the most CPU power out of a limited budget, > for use with a research project involving signal processing. So far, > apart from buying a refurbished Mac, the best solution seems to be > building an OpenMOSIX cluster using Athlon-XPs. > I plan to use a "master" computer with a slightly faster CPU than the > slaves, and fitted with a full-function m/board and peripherals. The > master does not need to run LinuxBIOS, but it's existence means it > should be easy to build kernel variants to test, without risking loss > of machine functionality. > To keep the cost of each slave as low as possible, I want to > eliminate all storage hardware from them, including floppy drive. > This means booting Linux over NFS, and/or installing part of it in > the BIOS chip. Hence my interest in LinuxBIOS. If I will need > significant extra hardware to reliably install LinuxBIOS, I might > just as well boot from floppy. > So far, I've identified a PC-Chips 810 board from one of my suppliers: > http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=2050 > which will be fitted with an Athlon-XP 2000+, some RAM, a case, a > PSU, and nothing else whatsoever. Total slave cost in this > configuration is under �160 including VAT. > Because this will be used in an academic Engineering department, > there will probably be a Flash and/or EEPROM programmer lying around > somewhere, that I can use rather than swapping BIOS chips. > Can anyone provide guidance on my chances of success, and how easy > this is likely to be? You can try our romimage for PC-Chips 810 + etherboot, then setup a dhcp server and proper elf kernel image. It should be enough to get you started. FYI, PCCHIPS also has a newer 810 http://www.pcchips.com.tw/product/M810DLUv52c.html which has ddr, but I don't think it is supported at the moment. Ollie, do you have any info about this board which is using 730D chipset.
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