[Beowulf] personal HPC

[Douglas Eadline]

> Cool! Impressive to have taken it this far!
>
> What are the dimensions of the system? And the mainbord
> for the compute nodes, are you using mini-itx there?

Hey Jon,

It is a standard Antec 1200 case, the approximate size
is 20x22x8.5 inches or 51x56x22 cm. It uses
micro-ATX boards. BTW, there is no case modification
needed, it all slides and screws in.

The FAQ may have can provide more info:

  http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com/wiki/LimulusFAQ

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Doug

>
> Regards,
>
> /jon
>
> On 12/22/2011 05:51 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
>> For those that don't know, I have been working
>> on a commodity "desk side" cluster for a while.
>> I have been writing about the progress at:
>>
>> http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com/
>>
>> Recently I was able to get 200 GFLOPS using Intel
>> i5-2400S processors connected by GigE (58% of peak).
>> Of course these are CPU FLOPS not GPU FLOPS and the
>> design has a power/heat/performance/noise envelope
>> that makes it suitable for true desk side computing.
>> (for things like software development, education,
>> small production work, and cloud staging)
>>
>> You can find the raw HPC numbers and specifications here:
>>
>> http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com/wiki/CommercialLimulus
>>
>> BTW, if click the "Nexlink Limulus" link, you can take a survey
>> for a chance to win one of these systems.
>>
>> Happy holidays
>>
>> --
>> Doug
>>
>
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