Looking at the CAD drawings - is there any reason why the nodes are built into circular columns, rather than traditional cuboid boxes? If anything such a design does not make full use of the physical space available.
And if you did pack the columns as drawn (with vertical water pipes in the gaps) - how do you service the nodes to replace failed components, water leaks et al. ? And also (I do work for an interconnect company after all) how would all this get wired up together as a cluster? Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Daniel Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Bridewell St., Mobile: +44 (0)779 209 1851 Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK Office: +44 (0)117 915 5519 ----------------------- www.quadrics.com -------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Samuel Sent: 09 October 2008 04:41 To: Beowulf List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] FY;) the Helmer cluster ----- "Igor Kozin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lol the guy surely is very ambitious - 4 PFLOPS for $0.9M > http://helmer3.sfe.se/ Sadly it looks like that's based on the single precision numbers for graphics cards, rather than double.. -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
