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PC/104 Linux Minicluster - miniHowTo

Posted by timothy on from the more-than-a-weekend-project dept.

coldfire writes: "At LISA2001 there was a neat presentation on a PC104 based mini-parallel computer. It seems that the how-to has now been posted, for the world to behold." From last year or not, this has some great pictures.

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  1. With some properly ventilated casing... by bc90021 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...you could probably turn four of these into table legs!

    Of course, while that would save space and money, having to take your table apart every time you needed to fix or swap something would be a PITA. ;)

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  2. Re:How did they get a .gov ?? by Jayr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From the site:

    Welcome to ERI, Embedded Reasoning Institute. ERI is a research facility in Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. We explore Machine Intelligence applied to embedded processors and sensors in a network.

  3. This One's Even Smaller and has a LinuxBIOS by LuxuryYacht · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Take a look at this Cluster-in-a-lunchbox
    aka BentoBox

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  4. BYO backplane by seanadams.com · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here's a similar project I did a couple years ago in case anyone's interested. It's a do-it-yourself backplane for those highly integrated full-length single board computers. I was able to make a pretty cost-effective high density cluser using a single case with nine PCs inside - eight single cpu celerons and a dual PII. There was even some room left over for laptop hard drives between the cards. Total rack space: 6U. You could also fit this in a deep 4U chassis.