Quick survey -- UPSs on slave nodes?

alvin at Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com alvin at Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com
Mon Feb 10 13:28:08 PST 2003


hi ya

> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:24:07AM -0800, Nicholas Webb wrote:
> 
> > At the University of Idaho we are preparing to order a new beowulf cluster
> > and a vendor seemed to be shocked that we wanted UPSs attached to ALL of
> > the nodes.

$40 el cheapo APC for each node... or  $1,000 - $2,000 for say a rackmount
liebert ups w/ extendable battery supply... 

dont put all them ups on the top on one side, your rack will be tipsy :-)

c ya
alvin
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9" deep 1U P4-2.4G servers ..




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