[Beowulf] portable clusters

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Mon Nov 28 12:43:37 PST 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 15:09 -0500, Andrew Fant wrote:
> Jim Lux wrote:
> > 
> 
> I can't speak to how viable the use of windows as a head node is, but
I 
> do know that LANL had a paper in the last couple of Linux Journals
about 
>    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
for 
> more engineering details.
If I remember the article this was a stack of PC-105 boards?
They stacked the boards using threaded spacers.




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