[Beowulf] Newbie Question: Racks versus boxes and good rack solutions for commodity hardware

[arjuna]

Hello all:

Am following Roberts advice and to make a long road shorter before jumping
on the learning curve of the spilling out of the computers from their cases,
which i will now do in a second go around, I am getting ready to install the
operating systems on each of the 3 computers and 1 laptop(should i even
include the laptop?)

Currently I am using the latest version of Mandriva linux. However this is a
full end user install and comes with a lot of stuff.  I assume I need a
simpler install minus all the extraneous stuff on the nodes. Any
recommendations or should i just install the laterst version of mandriva on
all of this.

Am researching an 8 port switch. Any experience regarding which brand or
models might be best?
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:21 AM, arjuna <brahmaforces at gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert:
>
> I value life too much to want to go that way just yet! However I do know
> what a conductor is, i was just trying to figure out what that metallic
> looking plate in the tower case was that housed the motherboards etc and was
> not a conductor...?
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Robert G. Brown <rgb at phy.duke.edu>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Geoff Jacobs wrote:
>>
>>  Yes, it is possible to kill yourself with low voltage. You have to
>>> really work at it and/or be unlucky, but it can be done. A DC resistance
>>> from leg to arm of 100 ohms or so is hard to achieve. Stabbing oneself
>>> with electrified needles, for starters.
>>>
>>
>> As in:
>>
>>  http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
>>
>> Improving the human race one incident at a time...
>>
>> There was also the joy of touching a 9V battery across the tip of your
>> tongue (safe enough, but more than enough to convince you that 9V can
>> make you go "Ow").  Or the dangers of 12V batteries in a saltwater
>> environment or even when it is raining and your hands are wet and your
>> skin is maybe a bit split when you grab one by the posts.
>>
>> As I said, do NOT mess with even "low" voltage electricity unless you
>> know things like what a conductor is, or you too might qualify for a
>> Darwin!  And we'd hate that...:-)
>>
>>   rgb
>>
>>
>> Robert G. Brown                        http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/<http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/>
>> Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
>> Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
>> Phone: 1-919-660-2567  Fax: 919-660-2525     email:rgb at phy.duke.edu<email%3Argb at phy.duke.edu>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> arjuna
> http://www.brahmaforces.com
>



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Best regards,
arjuna
http://www.brahmaforces.com
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