> What about Broadcom ethernet chips? Good option, hard to find on the low-cost SFF boards, however. As a matter of fact, I wish there were more options for on-board Ethernet chip sets. I use and test mostly top-tier mostly microATX boards for my Limulus desk-side clusters.
-- Doug > > -----Original Message----- > From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Douglas > Eadline > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 11:43 AM > To: Olli-Pekka Lehto <olli-pekka.le...@csc.fi> > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas > > > If you want to try and pull real performance out of any i7 based SFF > boards, > pay close attention to the Ethernet chipset (avoid Realtek, seek Intel) > > -- > Doug > > > >> We're in the process of developing a demo Beowulf cluster in the >> spirit of Tiny Titan (http://tinytitan.github.io/). However, the one >> we are working on is based on 10 Intel i7 small-form-factor boards >> with a fairly good per-core compute capability. >> >> I'd be interested to hear if you have some ideas (or even pointers to >> code!) for demonstrating HPC concepts to the general public. >> Especially having an element of interactivity would be nice. >> >> Couple of low-hanging fruits that we are already looking at are >> Blender/povray-rendering and porting the existing Tiny Titan codes. >> >> Best regards, >> Olli-Pekka >> -- >> Olli-Pekka Lehto >> Development Manager >> Computing Platforms >> CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. >> E-Mail: olli-pekka.le...@csc.fi >> Tel: +358 50 381 8604 >> skype: oplehto // twitter: ople >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin >> Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) >> visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> >> -- >> Mailscanner: Clean >> > > > -- > Doug > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To > change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Doug -- Mailscanner: Clean _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
