Linux On Steroids: DIY supercomputer software from Sandia

[Trei, Peter]

> Harmon Seaver[SMTP:hseaver at ameritech.net] wrote:
>       Also it's highly recommended to use dual cpu motherboards for
> building clusters, which doubles your processing power w/o adding much
> at all to the electric bill. But you probably are over estimating the
> power needs -- you don't need the drives or video or soundcards, so you
> dump those. When I build mine, I'm going to also get rid of the
> individual PS as well, use DC/DC converters and a central PS running it
> all off a 12v battery bank hopefully solar powered.
>        Sure, for a university or business, clustering the already
> available desktop boxes would be the way to go (at least if you had a
> linux lab), but having even 4 dual 1ghz motherboards would be a fun toy.
> 
> Harmon Seaver, MLIS
> 
Also check out http://www.sciam.com/2001/0801issue/0801hargrove.html
for a good article on Linux clusters.

Peter Trei