Malcolm, Just a plug for the recherche' space-minimization solution (I'm still thinking about my own hypothetical cluster, as you are). This article http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8177 is Ron Minnich's "Beowulf in a Lunchbox"; 16 mini motherboards with risers.
You could possibly consider a rackable system with diskless nodes (hand-me-down desktop motherboards, with onboard NIC, would fit in 1U slots, right?) and put the disks and power supplies and routers in a dense 2 or 3U space. Then maybe you could just load it all into a rack lafter the initial development in your basement. But as RGB mentions it depends on lots of things; heat, dust in your office, the budget, etc. Incidentally, if you built say 4 single-slot quad-core nodes with 2 dual-slot 8 core (per board) nodes, then you could find out which bandwidth/mem-channel/per-core configuration works better for your app, instead of anticipating; in the case that your initial prototype needn't be ideal. Peter P.S. incidentally, I think that Ron Minnich is the one I knew in High School; which is a bit odd, parallel to RGB from Duke. Next I'll meet a bewulfer from my kindergarden class :-) On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:05 AM, malcolm croucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Hi Guys , > > I am still thinking about my cluster and most probably will only begin > development next year june/july . > > Question : > > If i develop my system on 10 computers (nodes) which are all normal > desktops and then would like to place this in data hosting facility which > has access to real time information . I am going to need to buy new servers > (thin 1 u servers ). Would this be the best choice as desktops take up more > space and therefore will be more expensive . how do you guys get around this > problem ? or dont you ? > > Regards > > Malcolm > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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