[Beowulf] A Cluster of Motherboard.

Leif Nixon nixon at nsc.liu.se
Thu Nov 10 13:06:16 PST 2005


"H.Vidal, Jr." <hvidal at tesseract-tech.com> writes:

> That's Google, in case you did not know. I was shocked to see
> this when I saw a presentation recently by one of the Google
> guns here in NYC (actually, the inventor of Froogle).
> He showed us pix of a bunch of nodes essentially
> sitting on some insulating material, screwed to a simple
> frame-style chassis with careful consideration of grounding
> and power.

Uhm, the presentation I saw by one of the European engineers at Google
also contained pictures like that, but his comment was "We used to
experiment with stuff like this. Briefly."

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Leif Nixon                       -            Systems expert
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