Physical questions
Paul English
tallpaul at speakeasy.org
Mon Jan 13 11:42:20 PST 2003
We are looking at building a second cluster and I have some physical
installation questions.
When I was at NASA goddard, I got a look at one of the Beowulf clusters
there which had nodes which were just motherboards mounted on rails or a
shelf which sat in the rack. Seems great to me to avoid purchasing a case
if it isn't really needed - does anyone know any vendors for this sort of
a mounting solution? I found this one, but it looks like it includes the
motherboards and the rack, while I'd like to just buy the shelves:
http://www.kingstarusa.com/co-location/co-location_intelirack21.htm
I'd rather not fab my own, although I suppose that is an option.
For the above setup, it seems ideal if it could use just one big power
supply for the whole cabinet - are there any vendors for something like
this? Ideally if it could be a UPS also to provide brown-out power that
would be helpful, otherwise I'd have to sacrifice more rack slots to a
UPS.
Fortunately (and with a lot of help) I've pretty much got hardware and
software built and tweaked pretty well for my needs now, so what I need
to do for more power is - buy more!
Thanks,
Paul
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