[Beowulf] portable clusters

[Bari Ari]

John Hearns wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 15:09 -0500, Andrew Fant wrote:
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>>Jim Lux wrote:
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>>I can't speak to how viable the use of windows as a head node is, but
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> I 
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>>do know that LANL had a paper in the last couple of Linux Journals
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> about 
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>>   building just such a beast, housed in a plastic toolbox.  They had 
>>one of their prototypes on display at SC2005.  They use a thinkpad as 
>>the head node on their systems.  You might want to check with them
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> for 
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>>more engineering details.
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> If I remember the article this was a stack of PC-105 boards?
> They stacked the boards using threaded spacers.

Bento aka the lunchbox cluster: 
http://www.linuxbios.org/data/clusters/bento/
and the new and improved version DQ 
http://www.linuxbios.org/data/clusters/dq/index.html

I heard that these got quite a review from airport security when they 
were taken as carry-on.

-Bari