[Beowulf] portable clusters

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Mon Nov 28 13:50:38 PST 2005


Jim Lux wrote:

>> If I remember the article this was a stack of PC-105 boards?
> 
> They stacked the boards using threaded spacers.
> 
> PC104 form factor, actually, and they used a Linux box as the headnode.
> 
> The LLL folks have a 4 (or 8?) minicluster built from Via Mini-ITX boxes 
> in the nifty little M100 enclosures from mini-box.com.  I forget what 
> they used as a headnode.

Sadly it's a laptop with a factory BIOS (non LinuxBIOS) with a hard drive.

-Bari




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