Beyond that, building an entire cluster of that size into a large shipping container is genius - given access and resources to a crane and proper machining expertise. But then again if your building a cluster of that size I suppose the crane, shipping container and a few welders are not going to be your biggest worries.
Also interesting is that they use Gigabyte - I haven't been entirely impressed with them and that is for purely desktop use. Perhaps their server grade boards are better quality enough to make them worthwhile at that scale. Ellis Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Bill Broadley wrote: > >> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > > Very interesting. "UPS" built right into the box, and the whole thing > basically handmade out of OTC components. Power supply outside of the > box (which makes great sense from a cooling point of view!). > > rgb > > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ > Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:r...@phy.duke.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
