> The good news from Ron's photos is it seems they do make 'em like they used
> to,
> abet a little smaller.
And the biblical number seven is also back, although not in the
"seventy times seven" form yet :-)
++L
good to know; for some reason I thought you were getting early
engineering samples.
-Skip
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:39 AM, ron minnich wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Skip Tavakkolian
> wrote:
>> Very cool! more lights than the WOPR and slightly less than the
>> Connection Machine :)
> Very cool! more lights than the WOPR and slightly less than the
> Connection Machine :)
I have never forgotten the day I asked about changing the baud rate on a serial
line on my colleges Honeywell level 66 mainframe. They took me into the machine
room
and opened one of the cupboards to show m
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Skip Tavakkolian
wrote:
> Very cool! more lights than the WOPR and slightly less than the
> Connection Machine :)
>
> The Stagecoach board seems to be available on gumstix site. Anyone order it
> yet?
we ordered them :-)
ron
Very cool! more lights than the WOPR and slightly less than the
Connection Machine :)
The Stagecoach board seems to be available on gumstix site. Anyone order it yet?
-Skip
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, ron minnich wrote:
> Here is our latest minicluster design.
>
> We used the gumstix stag
Very nice, and very reminiscent of the "processor farms" we used to
build out of gumstix-sized transputer TRAM modules in the late '80s.
Of course you'd need a whole boxful of 20Mhz transputers to compete
with a single 600Mhz omap, but the transputer did make it surprisingly
easy to get linear spe
And it even makes a very decent christmas tree, with all the pretty lights! ;)
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> Here is our latest minicluster design.
>
> We used the gumstix stagecoach.
>
> It's nice, 196 Ovaros in a box. We had a number of failed attempts on
> an enclosure
I think Mitch visited us (MPI Softtech) in Starkville Mississippi, some
years ago, telling me about Plan 9 and FreeBSD stuff he was doing.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, ron minnich wrote:
> Here is our latest minicluster design.
>
> We used the gumstix stagecoach.
>
> It's nice, 196 Ovaros
Here is our latest minicluster design.
We used the gumstix stagecoach.
It's nice, 196 Ovaros in a box. We had a number of failed attempts on
an enclosure design:
http://picasaweb.google.com/rminnich/Strongbox?authkey=Gv1sRgCI6PwZXM57iZ8gE#
That was my first design, it was really quite compact an
