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PC/104 Linux Minicluster - miniHowTo
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.
so i had some karma to burn.....
I would have so had first post, except that I went to look at the pr0n that was loading in the other browser before I saw that my 444th reload indeed came back with a new story.
Alas.
My balls hurt.
second post!
Imagine a -- no, no, I really shouldn't.
They that would sacrifice their
Looks like it'd make a grand beowulf cluster.
Too bad I don't have any money since all these programmers with no morals are taking jobs from us Oath-swearing engineers.
Goddammit!
It sure stacks up pretty nice, I am just wondering if there is any heat dissapation issues when you have so much processing in so little space... lucky it's not running AMD.
First post.. mandatory w00t
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If you pile up enough processors on this thing, you'll either reach the sky or have more computing power than God at some point. Looks fun though.
I am a lesbian, deeply involved with a woman of lusty beauty such as most men will never know. Her hair is short and blonde. Her face is bold, with a nice sexy square jaw. She has small breasts, and muscular arms and legs, and even a slight hint of a six-pack. Just the mere thought of her body gets my juices flowing.
She and I have been carpet munching for well over five years now. We love each other deeply, but it seems we've reached an impasse in our relationship. Every night, I lick and I lick and I lick. I finger, finger, finger. I also get the attention back with all sorts of creative ideas from my partner. Everything from dildos, to finger paints (when I am on my period), to meat tenderizer. However, no matter how much sexual gratification we exchange, it seems to be wearing down.
One day, while surfing on Slashdot, I learned about an interesting technique involving a turkey baster. The basic idea is that you fill a turkey baster with semen, then insert that tool into the vagina, and squeeze out its contents. With this in mind, I contemplated the idea of getting pregnant with this method, and having a baby with my partner.
I approached my beautiful mate and asked him if she wanted to have a baby. Her face lit up! She seemed to be excited; imbued with new life! However, the euphoria rapidly dissipated when she came to the realization that she did not possess the proper equipment to get me pregnant. I quickly responded that "indeed you do have the right equipment! It's in the kitchen, I'll show you." Promptly, we waltzed into the kitchen and out of a drawer, I produced the turkey baster that would bring a new life into world.
The next job was to find a source of sperm. Sperm is not hard to come by. Men ejaculate tens of thousands of gallons of it every day. We figured it'd be easy to acquire a nice hot, steaming load of cum from virtually any man. One day, I stood outside the door of our home, close to the sidewalk, top-less, and perking my lively breasts at any man who passed. Most simply gawked, but some actually tried to touch, but quickly walked away before doing so. Pretty soon, a nice young man came along who took such an interest in my tits that he seemed to forget about all else! Before long, I had him in our house and I was giving him a blowjob before he even knew what happened. As soon as he shot a big load into my mouth, I grabbed the baster and spit the load into it. He looked puzzled, but quickly realized the bizarre situation he was in and left immediately. I paid him no mind.
"Quickly," I shouted to my lover, "fuck me with this thing!" My lover grabbed the baster, thrust it into my eager beaver, and began to thrust like she was a man. I rubbed her clit and fingered her and she tweaked my boobs and fondled my own clit. When we were both about to climax, she squeezed the bulb of the turkey baster, squirting the whole load deep into my uterus. The warm, thick feeling of it drove me wild! When we were done, we rubbed oil all over each other's bodies, praying to the Lord Jesus that we would get pregnant.
Over the next few weeks, signs of something unusual began to show. As it turns out, I was not only pregnant, I had herpes too. Fucking Hemos! My life was turned upside down, but that's for another day...
What Is PC/104?
PC/104 (IEEE P996.1) was developed to fill the need for an embedded platform, which was compliant with standardized hardware and software of the PC architecture. Mechanically quite different from the PC form factor, PC/104 modules are 3.6 X 3.8 inches in size. A self-stacking bus is implemented with pin-and-socket connectors composed of 64- and 40- contact male/female headers, which replace the card edge connectors used in standard PC hardware. Virtually anything that is available for a standard PC is available in the PC/104 form factor. PC/104 components are designed to be stacked together to create a complete embedded solution. Normally there will be a single CPU board and several peripheral boards connected by the PC/104 (ISA) system bus. Often there will be a PCI bus provided by the CPU board that will accommodate PCI peripheral boards (this standard is called PC/104+). Overall the price point for a highly integrated PC/104 CPU module is lower than for a comparable IBM-compatible PC. However, due to the power dissipation constraints typically found in embedded applications, CPU horsepower is generally lower. For more look at the PC/104 consortium site.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
As a professional consultant for a major Fortune 500 software company, I've recently gotten involved in the whole open source phenomenon as started by Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman with the release of the GNU/Linux operating system (or is it Linux? I'm not too sure on this point).
Anyway, after having compiled a report on the commercial viability of open source as an alternative to closed source in the e-commerce/b2b world, I've become quite interested in Linux myself, and thanks to a handy Corel Linux distribution, consider myself to be someway to becoming a "guru" as people here like to call themselves.
Anyway, my point is that Slackware, as a distribution, doesn't give out the professional image that Linux is trying to gain at the moment. On one hand, you've got respectable players like Red Hat, Corel and SCO pushing Linux's corporate image to new levels of respectibility, but on the other hand you've got a distribution named "Slackware", hardly the name your tech-savvy CTO wants to represent a core part of their enterprise solution.
The whole name seems to give the distribution a half-finished, "slack" even, image, surely not one that's in anybody's best interest, whether they be the average long-haired Linux sysadmin or a suited CTO looking for the next big thing. And this image taints all of Linux.
No, whilst Slackware may produce a decent distribution, they definitely need to think about a name change to ensure continued acceptance in the increasingly corporate-driven Linux market.
...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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As a marketing guy it is my JOB to dictate technology. You seem to have a 'developers outlook', fair enough, but trust me we in marketing know what sells and that's the bottom line. (I'm sorry if this conflicts with your left-wing views)
My corporation believes that Linux has the potential to become the next "Pokemon". However we have a real serious problem marketing it to the most lucrative segment of the marketplace, namely the upscale domestic consumer.
All our research shows that in normalised double-blind brand-recognition tests, Linux has statistically insignificant recognition among our target demographic (ABC1 Urban professionals and second wave adopters).
What we are seeing is that Linux is let down by its utterly and completely lame marketing, and the image it has (rightly or wrongly) as the "OS of choice for rocket scientists and propellerheads". (that was an actual quote taken from one of our focus groups).
Our plan is to market Linux to people who want to maintain the appearance of being "techno- savvy", a kind of technological one upmanship if you like.
I cannot give out too many details at the moment, but imagine for a moment this concept:
Linux - The European Luxury Sedan of Operating Systems
We are thinking in terms of a premium distribution, perhaps packaged in a polished wooden velvet lined box, with a set of large leather bound, gold embossed manuals, which will look great on the aging CEOs desk (where we believe it may well stay, unopened), and demonstrate to his subordinates that he "gets it" and is as techno savvy as the spotty young MCSEs running his servers.
Think BMW/Mercedes, there is a large section of the American public which worships all things European, and you don't get much more European than Linux.
We believe that with this kind of high-conceptual packaging, we can charge around $395.95 for our distribution (on a par with NT prices), which when you consider the OS itself is free, and the CD will cost around 45c to produce is a tremendous return on our investment.
There are also plans for branded golf clubs/bags and ties/cufflinks which announce to the world at large just how "Linux-savvy" you are, in no uncertain terms.
Finally, we do have plans to IPO, but this rests to a large extent on the Linux community growing up, and behaving in a way compatible with the aspirations of our target demographic.
I'm sorry to say this means losing the left-wing posturing, the body piercings, the black trenchcoat, the hero-worship of Linus Torvals and Alan Cox.
Also we cannot think of a name for the new distribution. We thought of EuroLinux, but that was a bit too obvious.
We welcome suggestions for a name.
ALAN COX: FREAKISH LOVE CHILD
Alan Cox. Linux developer extraordinaire. Mr. Cox is the second in command on kernel development, just under the almighty Linus himself. Recently, Mr. Cox was interviewed for a Slashdot article. Hundreds of Slashdotters submitted questions for Mr. Cox. Many pledged their undying devotion in a putrid display of blind respect. Not one question was asked concerning Mr. Cox's origins. And that's a shame. It would have been interesting to see him explain what I've been shown.
As you may know, I have a Natalie Portman poster mounted on the wall behind my computer. I often meditate on the poster as I'm writing, be it stories, Slashdot comments or program code. From time to time, the poster will hypnotize me with scientifically-proven hot young actress mind rays. Once hypnotized, I am able to receive messages from the great spirit guides of my Sioux ancestors. These spirit guides have given me much information about various Linux personalities, the most recent of which is Mr. Alan Cox. Prepare yourselves for the truth.
Alan's story begins in the snowy altitudes of the Himalayas. a group of Americans, led by the eccentric explorer Ignatius Mandrake, had decided to book an expedition to the mountain range. The group of adventurers were really interested in nothing more than snapping a few photographs to take back to their slack- jawed, wide-eyed friends. Bragging rights. Basically, they were the type of people who had to constantly prove how rich they really were because they really weren't rich.
Well, not Ignatius. He was a down-to-earth, rugged fellow. Big as a bear and twice as strong. Within the circles Ignatius travelled in, it was commonly said that he could snap Grizzly Adams like a twig with one hand while using his other hand to skin Ben alive and use its fur to wipe his ass. And so it was, Ignatius was hired to lead the team to their snowy fate.
Several days had passed as the team slowly made way to the top of the mountain. The journey had gone quite smoothly, completely without incident, with the exception of a malfunctioning Nikon F4. The group would pack up and resume their hike at the crack of dawn. Take a few breaks and then setup camp at sunset, clustering their tents together for peace of mind. Ignatius slept in a special, white, thermal sleeping bag, out in the open, several yards away from the others.
Well, the bright, orange tents were a strange sight up in the mountains and, one fateful night, they attracted a very special visitor. Ignatius slept blissfully in isolation, while the rest huddled in pairs in their tents. Nobody heard the monstrosity that was approaching from the depths of the darkness. Not that it would have mattered if they had.
Ignatius awoke to the blood-curdling screams. He watched in amusement as the giant, white ape- like creature tore every single member of the group into small pieces. He couldn't help but to chuckle as one tried to run away, only to have his legs cleanly removed before the remainder of his body was shredded into stringy wet slabs. The only thing that phased Ignatius was the unholy stench of the Yeti.
Once the last adventurer had been eviscerated, Ignatius unzipped his bag. He stood tall and proud and removed his shirt. His nipples protruded from his hairy chest as they stiffened in the cold. He massaged his left nipple as he challenged the Yeti, "come to daddy, bitch."
The ten-foot-tall Yeti roared with anger as it swiftly approached Ignatius. He put his hands on the Yeti's shoulders and eventually caused it to lose balance. The Yeti landed in the snow, with a loud thud that almost sounded like thunder as it's breath was forced from its stinging lungs. Ignatius threw himself upon the vile beast and eventually knocked it unconscious. He netted the Yeti into his sleeping-bag and headed back down the mountain.
Ignatius made a sizeable fortune off of his sale of the Yeti to a circus owner. He used his money to buy a large house-boat and retired to the South Atlantic. The Yeti's life would not be so easy.
The Yeti was subjected to intense ridicule by his fellow circus freaks, who were insanely jealous. The Yeti was not allowed near the other circus animals, due to his nasty habit of trying to eat them (and succeeding). Circus goers consistently avoided the Yeti due to his putrid stench. The Yeti was flung into a pit of despair. His only comfort was a bottle of Jim beam. Unfortunately, the Yeti's liver wasn't as adept at handling alcohol as his human cousins.
One day a new freak was inducted into the circus. An extremely foul-smelling woman who was disgustingly obese due to a gland problem. It was instant love. Two creatures who had never known the tender sweetness of true love fell into each other's arms. The following weeks were filled with romantic, moonlit walks along the beach, carefree romps through daisy-covered plains and tender moments of kissing, petting and de-fleaing.
But the damage had already been done. Bliss had found the Yeti too late and it was no more than two months before he lay on his death bed. In a final act of caring, Bertha gave herself to her love. Her last gift to her beloved.
After the Yeti died, Bertha left the circus. the memories were too painful. And she needed to provide a stable home for her beloved's final gift to her: young Alan Cox.
Unfortunately, Alan inherited the worst of both worlds: his mother's disgusting glandular problem and his father's gagging scent. This made him less than popular with his peers. Young Alan was constantly brutalized by the neighborhood boys and girls.
Of course, Alan turned to drugs, satanism and his computer for solace. He taught himself c programming and would code for days on end. Once exhausted, he would ingest LSD and prance about in farmer's crops, making circles and wild designs during his satanic rituals. He had several mystical visions during these rituals, one of which led him to the human resources department of Microsoft corporation.
Alan began to grow bored with his usual set of designs. This boredom manifested as a haunting vision in which a ghastly demon reprimanded Alan for his lack of originality by inducing chronic flatulence in him and then summoning a match to follow him around. Alan took heed of the omen and decided to try something different.
One night, Alan dropped three hits of purple microdot and stripped naked. He grabbed his equipment and set off for a lush crop down the road. He worked all night on his new design and when he was finished, he was rewarded by the demons who furnished him with a virginal sheep. That was Alan's first sexual encounter.
But his rewards did not end there. Alan's design, which was the code for a most elegant c-compiler made the front pages of computer magazines nation-wide. He was quickly scheduled for a meeting with the president of human resources, Microsoft corporation.
Alan eagerly cleaned himself up for the meeting. He removed the rancid animal tissue from his beard, matted his hair down with Crisco and bathed in a tub full of Brute-33. none of this had any real effect, but Alan felt better and he donned a freshly pressed suit.
Alan walked into the meeting and sat at a large table, surrounded by Microsoft executives, including Bill Gates himself. the Microsoftians had come up with a ceremony to celebrate the new partnership with Alan... they would release a penguin from the window and let it fly to freedom, thus symbolizing an era of grand innovation.
Steve Balmer removed the penguin from its cage and held it to Alan, "with your blessing, we shall release this penguin to its freedom, thus symbolizing a new era of innovation in the computer software industry!"
Alan looked at the penguin and suddenly had a flash of inspiration (a flashback). he took the penguin from Mr. Balmer and bit off its head. The room was aghast. Reporters captured the event on film and the news hit every major newspaper in the world.
Alan was assured he would never work in the software industry again.
The next morning, Linus Torvalds picked up the local newspaper and saw the astonishing photograph and headline. He knew immediately he had found his second in command.
PC/104 (IEEE P996.1) was developed to fill the need for an embedded platform, which was compliant with standardized hardware and software of the PC architecture. Mechanically quite different from the PC form factor, PC/104 modules are 3.6 X 3.8 inches in size. A self-stacking bus is implemented with pin-and-socket connectors composed of 64- and 40- contact male/female headers, which replace the card edge connectors used in standard PC hardware. Virtually anything that is available for a standard PC is available in the PC/104 form factor. PC/104 components are designed to be stacked together to create a complete embedded solution. Normally there will be a single CPU board and several peripheral boards connected by the PC/104 (ISA) system bus. Often there will be a PCI bus provided by the CPU board that will accommodate PCI peripheral boards (this standard is called PC/104+). Overall the price point for a highly integrated PC/104 CPU module is lower than for a comparable IBM-compatible PC. However, due to the power dissipation constraints typically found in embedded applications, CPU horsepower is generally lower. For more look at the PC/104 consortium site .
The MiniCluster power base is a custom assembly available from Parvus Corporation. Referring to the parts list, the power base is composed of a custom extrusion, end plate, power entry module, open frame power supply, and (Parvus P/N PRV-0974A-01) PC/104 power interface w/ temperature sensing. The end plate and custom extrusion form the base for the MiniCluster. The custom extrusion is machined for the power entry module and the open frame power supply. The power entry module contains a power cord receptacle, fuse, and power switch. Switched 110Vac from the power entry module is wired to the open frame power supply, which supplies all required DC voltages for the PC/104 stack. DC outputs supplied by the open frame power supply feed the PC/104 power interface module, which is the first (bottom) module in the stack. The PC/104 power interface module contains two fans, which ventilate the bottom of the stack and the open frame power supply.
For those hearty souls wishing to construct their own power base, the open frame power supply is manufactured by Connor Power Supplies (800) 235-5929 www.condorpower.com. For technical information, reference the model GLC65A switching power supply here. The PC/104 power interface module specifications are listed here.
The CPU modules in the system are operated as Single Board Computers (SBCs) with the exception of the top CPU in the stack. The bottom three CPUs need only be supplied power on the PC/104 bus. To interrupt all PC/104 bus lines except for the bus power lines, double-height stack-through adapters are used to connect the CPU boards together, and all PC/104 bus connections except power connections are interrupted by means of cutting pins on the adapters.
Advanced Digital Logic MSMP5SEN/SEV CPU's are used in the MiniCluster, sporting the following features: Pentium II 266 MHz, 128 MB DRAM, LPT1 parallel port, COM1 & COM2 serial ports, speaker, PS/2 or AT keyboard interface, PS/2 mouse interface, floppy disk interface, AT-IDE hard disk interface, VGA/LCD interface, 10/100Mbit Ethernet interface, (Optional) video input with frame grabber, (optional) compact flash socket, and many more features.
Dual PCMCIA Interface Module The Parvus PRV-1016X-03 PC/104 dual left loading PCMCIA interface works with PC Cards and compact flash devices. The board uses the Intel (Cirrus Logic) PD6722 chip which works well in Linux systems. This interface is used to provide a second (wired or wireless) network interface on node 1 (top CPU in the stack) of the MiniCluster. The second network interface is used to connect to the public network. Since Node 1 has both private and public network interfaces it may act as a routing or masquerading node for the cluster. All modules above Node 1 in the stack (Hubs, PCMCIA interface, and Quad CPU switch) share a full PC/104 bus with Node 1. Install the PCMCIA interface module with default Parvus configuration.
The PRV-0752X-01 pC/104 10Mbit Ethernet hub board has four 10BaseT ports, one AUI port, and one 10Base2 (thin net) port. As configured in the MiniCluster, two of these hub cards are installed in the stack. One TP port on each hub module is used to interconnect the hubs - leaving six ports available. Four of the ports are used to connect the stack CPUs on a private network, one port is connected to an RJ-45 jack on the MiniCluster end plate (making the MiniCluster private network available to the outside world) and one port is unused (spare). Refer to the Parvus "PC/104 Ethernet Products User Manual" at this place for configuration and connection options.
The Parvus PRV-0886X-01 Quad CPU Switch is essentially a KVM switch, which is integral to the PC/104 MiniCluster stack. This module also routes reset, speaker, and COM port lines to a specific CPU that it is switched to. The quad CPU switch has proven to be very useful in performing local and diagnostic operations on the MiniCluster. Refer to the Quad CPU Switch manual (pg.2) for the board and connector layout. When configuring this module be sure to jumper off the P1, P2, P3, P4 power select options. Leave the card in the default base address configuration. If an external CPU Selector switch is used, be sure to remove the 74HC574 chip from sock U7. Refer to the PC/104 Quad CPU Switch manual at this place.
PS/2 adapter for keyboard/mouse, reset switch, speaker connections are made to the Quad CPU Switch J8-utility connection. Refer to the Quad CPU Switch manual, pg.4
VGA port adapter is connected to the Quad CPU Switch J9-VGA. Refer to the Quad CPU Switch manual, pg.5. A cable is available from Parvus (CBL-1009a-01).
External CPU Select Switch is connected to Quad CPU Switch J11. Refer to pg.6, Quad CPU Switch manual
COM Port DB-9P connector can be connected to the Quad CPU Switch J7. Refer to pg.5, Quad CPU Switch manual. A cable is available from Parvus (CBL-1010a-01).
The MiniCluster is built with Parvus SnapStick components, which form an incremental card cage as modules are put into the stack. Refer to the Parvus SnapStick webpage for more information on Snapstick Components.
Connect a CPU Module to the Power Base via a modified double-height adapter (bus power adapter) and power the stack. Check PC/104 bus voltages. Attach Advanced Digital Logic keyboard/video/utility cable set to the CPU under test and check the CPU for proper operation. Install a compact flash microdrive with preinstalled operating system and power the stack. Check for proper operation.
Continue to add power bus adapter/CPU modules to the stack, checking each CPU for proper operation each time a new CPU is added.
After the fourth CPU is added to the stack, add the PCMCIA adapter interface to the stack by use of a pc/104 double height adapter. Power the stack and check that to PCMCIA module detects correctly under Linux. The CPU Modules are numbered one to four, top to bottom (of the stack). The Node 1 CPU is connected to the PCMCIA interface.
Install a hub module into the stack. Test for proper private network operation by connecting two nodes to the hub, powering stack, and running ping tests against each of the nodes under test.
Install the second hub module into the stack. Cross connect the two hub modules, and connect two nodes - one to a port on each of the two hub modules, power the stack and run ping tests against each of the nodes under test. This completes the test for each of the hub modules.
Remove the PCMCIA/HUB/HUB substack above node 1 and install the Quad CPU Switch module. Connect the end plate to the Quad CPU Switch to supply mouse/keyboard/VGA monitor connection to the Quad CPU Switch. Connect a CPU to the Quad CPU Switch (utility/com/VGA connections). Select the channel under test with the external CPU select switch. Power the stack and check for proper operation of Quad CPU Switch.
Connect remaining CPU com/utility/VGA cables to the Quad CPU Switch. Power the stack, switch between each node and check for proper operation of each CPU and of the Quad CPU Switch.
Once the Quad CPU Switch has been integrated into the stack, reinstall the PCMCIA/Hub/Hub substack into the stack. Power the stack and check for proper operation.
If not performed prior to this point, 1/4-20 threaded rod should be inserted into each SnapStick corner and screwed into the power base SnapMounts. The SnapStick assembly should be tightened at the top by use of a SnapWrench applied to each of the top SnapNuts. The end plate is bolted to the 6/32 nut end of the SnapNut.
Slide the MiniCluster plastic case over the top of the stack. The cover should interface well with each set of SnapGuides in the SnapStick cage. Connect the case fans to the power base 5V screw terminal just prior to pushing the case all the way to contact the powerbase extrusion.
Attach the case top plate to the stack end plate with sheet metal screws.
Happy Parallel Computing!
FUck..i wanted to have the first page widening post, but I coulnd't seem to find any on other discussions, nor coudl I whip one out in the time I was willing to put into it...what's the currestn status of page widening on /.?
thx,
ac
I'm glad timothy, the Slashdot greatest editor of the sixties, posted this news story. As a matter of fact, me and my geek fellows (*hurmph* silly me, I have no friends) I am planning to run linux on a PC104 system. As we all know, Linux is the choice of a GNU generation.
Just IMAGINE a beowulf cluster of these!
Wait a second... JUST IMAGINE MULTIPLES OF THESE CLUSTERS!!!
That is much better.
Just out of curiosity, what distro are they running on it?
I know they have some public interest sections of they're site .. but they are a corporation with products and such .. I wonder how they got a .gov address ..
I am a lesbian, deeply involved with a woman of lusty beauty such as most men will never know. Her hair is short and blonde. Her face is bold, with a nice sexy square jaw. She has small breasts, and muscular arms and legs, and even a slight hint of a six-pack. Just the mere thought of her body gets my juices flowing.
She and I have been carpet munching for well over five years now. We love each other deeply, but it seems we've reached an impasse in our relationship. Every night, I lick and I lick and I lick. I finger, finger, finger. I also get the attention back with all sorts of creative ideas from my partner. Everything from dildos, to finger paints (when I am on my period), to meat tenderizer. However, no matter how much sexual gratification we exchange, it seems to be wearing down.
One day, while surfing on Slashdot, I learned about an interesting technique involving a turkey baster. The basic idea is that you fill a turkey baster with semen, then insert that tool into the vagina, and squeeze out its contents. With this in mind, I contemplated the idea of getting pregnant with this method, and having a baby with my partner.
I approached my beautiful mate and asked him if she wanted to have a baby. Her face lit up! She seemed to be excited; imbued with new life! However, the euphoria rapidly dissipated when she came to the realization that she did not possess the proper equipment to get me pregnant. I quickly responded that "indeed you do have the right equipment! It's in the kitchen, I'll show you." Promptly, we waltzed into the kitchen and out of a drawer, I produced the turkey baster that would bring a new life into world.
The next job was to find a source of sperm. Sperm is not hard to come by. Men ejaculate tens of thousands of gallons of it every day. We figured it'd be easy to acquire a nice hot, steaming load of cum from virtually any man. One day, I stood outside the door of our home, close to the sidewalk, top-less, and perking my lively breasts at any man who passed. Most simply gawked, but some actually tried to touch, but quickly walked away before doing so. Pretty soon, a nice young man came along who took such an interest in my tits that he seemed to forget about all else! Before long, I had him in our house and I was giving him a blowjob before he even knew what happened. As soon as he shot a big load into my mouth, I grabbed the baster and spit the load into it. He looked puzzled, but quickly realized the bizarre situation he was in and left immediately. I paid him no mind.
"Quickly," I shouted to my lover, "fuck me with this thing!" My lover grabbed the baster, thrust it into my eager beaver, and began to thrust like she was a man. I rubbed her clit and fingered her and she tweaked my boobs and fondled my own clit. When we were both about to climax, she squeezed the bulb of the turkey baster, squirting the whole load deep into my uterus. The warm, thick feeling of it drove me wild! When we were done, we rubbed oil all over each other's bodies, praying to the Lord Jesus that we would get pregnant.
Over the next few weeks, signs of something unusual began to show. As it turns out, I was not only pregnant, I had herpes too. Fucking Hemos! My life was turned upside down, but that story is for another day...
And into fishing? If so, consider Wading with Wendell!
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Parallel computing, Literally!
-Jeff
San Mehat did something like this using boards from the netwinders. This was back in '98 IIRC.
Take a look at this Cluster-in-a-lunchbox
aka BentoBox
Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur
Ok.. We've got the parallel thing. How about some SpecFP, Linpack or Scalpack ratings?
In some of the pix, there are two rods on opposite corners. Then in one pic, all four rods are there. But then in some other pix there are two rods in a single side. I think that this is a rod conspiracy. All these pictures are not of the same unit, no sir ree bob. That page was obviously pieced together from multiple units being put together in multiple locations over some period of time. For what nefarious purpose, only Alex Jones would know (I swear, if you look real close in one of the pics, you can see a tiny black helicopter in the reflection of the DMM).
I don't know who the engineer idea-guy who designed this is, but it seems fairly evident that it's influenced at least in part by Lego.
I'd like to see an interview or something to see if this can be confirmed - if so, it presents some interesting questions about the value of today's "2-step" contruction toys.
Can we call it "minix"?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Wait a minute! That's the topic of the article! Moderators please disregard this post.
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--toq
Ever wanna pour gas on that rotten computer and set it a flame? I did.
http://www.kaillera.com/forums/viewtopic.ph
a beowulf cluster of these... oh, wait, that's the tagline...
--Kevin
I can't believe these guys made it on slashdot without even having a *case*.
But they should follow this up by posting a HOWTO about actually getting linux to run on this machine.
from PC104.org FAQ
Q. We are a company considering using the PC/104
standard in an embedded system. One big worry
that we need to get answered, before even
thinking of using this standard in our
products, is: What is the future of PC/104
when Microsoft has announced not to support
in the future the ISA bus (that is, PC/104)?
A. Despite the "PC99" recommendations of
Microsoft and Intel, which eliminate the need
for the ISA bus, Intel (and others) have
promised to keep current ISA chipsets alive
for at least five to seven years. There are
many PC/104-based "real world" interfaces
from hundreds of manufacturers, and these are
not going to become obsolete just because the
desktop PC does not require or use ISA slots
anymore.
Functions such as analog I/O, digital I/O,
motion control, and custom application
interfaces can still take advantage of low
cost and design simplicity of the ISA bus.
Contrary to Microsoft's and Intel's marketing
focus, the 386 and 486 processors are still
the most popular in PC/104-based embedded
systems, with Pentium designs only recently
becoming available on a wide scale.
The PC/104 Consortium added PCI to PC/104,
resulting in PC/104-Plus (= ISA bus PLUS PCI
bus), in order to allow high speed processors
such as the Intel Pentium to utilize higher
speed I/O bandwidth to achieve their full
potential in embedded systems. The PC/104-
Plus standard, with its PCI in addition to
ISA bus, provides a long-term future for
PC/104. Manufacturers of PC/104 modules now
have three choices from which to choose, all
within the industry standard PC/104 form-
factor:(1) ISA bus only; (2) PCI plus ISA
buses; and (3) PCI bus only.
Despite the popularity of PCI in desktop PCs,
there will continue to be an advantage to having
two separate buses in many embedded
system applications: PCI bus, for high speed
block data transfers (e.g. video, networking,
disk storage); and ISA bus, for byte-oriented
(e.g. real-world data acquisition and
control).
Today, 80% to 90% of PC/104 form-factor
modules are using ISA bus only. Within
approximately five years, it is likely that
there will be greater than 50% using the PCI
bus. It will probably take ten years before
the situation of today is reversed, with 80%
to 90% of PC/104 form-factor modules using
PCI bus only. Even so, ISA will still be
supported on PC/104-Plus modules, ten years
from now.
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I was actually going to moderate some posts in this topic until I discovered all 5 points would be wasted in 'Redundant'
also at that site is the price list. At $642 for each of those Pentium II boards (not including RAM), I think I'll stick with buying "jumbo-mini" Beowulf nodes for the time being.
They have 4 266MHZ Pentium IIs at almost $700 each! So about 1.1GHZ of CPU speed combined. And how much did it cost all together? Around $8000!
It may have been fun to build it but come on. Just buy a 1GHZ Book Style Case PC for well under a $1000. It would be even smaller, consume less electricity, and probably be more reliable since there are less parts.
Ok so eventually you would have alot of computing power. BUT, the thing cost $5k and has less computing power than a $.5k emachine. They are embedded type cards which typically have less juice than full size PCs of the same mhz. Doing parrallel processing also typically results in less power than a single chip of the same mhz (4x250 is less than 1000mhz in resulting power) So these cards at 266mhz really wouldn't have much power at all for the money. Still neat type of system and I like the KVM type card in it. It looks like you could have 4 systems in the size of one PC.
LinuxWorx
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If people are going to spend time on this sort of thing, why not do something interesting with the architecture? Use some interesting processors, use FPGAs for interconnects, whatever.
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.
This strikes me as a good idea for datacenters who wish to offer dedicated systems to their customers. Normally, this is kind of expensive with rackmounts costing at least $1200 for bottom of the line. However, imagine a lot of these little modules.
You could hook them all up to the network, and boot off of some network attached storage, where the customer OS would be located. This way, if a server would fail, all you would have to do is replace the module and voila, the system is up again.
Nevermind the speed issue -- I think there are some PIII PC104 modules that go into the GHz range. But it would be really cool, considering these things are a lot smaller than standard 19" racks. You could triple the storage space of a datacenter by using these things.
Nevermind the heat issues, but it does seem like a cool idea.
"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
here's how it should've gone:
pc/104 PPC modules (less Wattage, more HP), with some RAM (128MB dimm?), 100MB NIC. Optional serial port. That's all they need.
I mean, KVMs? Seriously?
Stack 'em up, netboot em off a "master" box with video, disk, etc, and beowulf/mosix away...
you can make the same thing with old- P-II desktops for 1/8th the price of that thing. PC104 cpu board, espically anything above a Pentium level are horribly overpriced. (and rightfully so, as 1/50th of them get sold. compared to regular motherboards
for less money you can make a 4 node P-III 866 cluster in rackmount cases with SCSI Ultra160 drives including the rack with nice smoked glass doors, the rackmount KVM and a rackmount 10/100 switch.... It still doesn't eliminate the "neat-o" factor of the PC-104 design though.
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Like BeOS for example. That would totally rock!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those things!
Ben
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$642 for a 266-mhtz node is NO deal although it may have been when they wrote the article, what was it about a year ago.
But this kind of stuff doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
To my left as I type is a 4xPII200Mhz AMD Goliath. I did our network admin a favor and took it out of the server room for him. I'm using it as a toy machine to run apps on. It's huge, and compared to my PIII 700Mhz w/ 500Mb of ram laptop: it's just plain slow.
My point is: I'll bet 10-1 I can write a multi-threaded app in JAVA for this beast that could spank the crap out of a distributed app written in c for that cluster. The one exeception would be ultra-low bandwidth apps like Distributed.net. Anything which required more than 1 cross-cpu transaction per second would be dreadfully slow compared to an SMP PC. But I understand the need for clustered computing and it is really cool, so I'll leave this point alone and point out the other obvious thing...
I can see the need to build a cluster if you are doing research/development into clustered computing. But for the cost of this, you could cluster two of those Wal-mart OSless PCs. They would probably be a hell of a lot faster, take up only a couple square feet more room, be much less of a headache to get running, contain a whole lot more memory and disk space, etc...
This is ultra-geekdom coolness but it just doesn't make sense, IMO.
My $0.02 will always be worth more than your â0.02, so
I was wondering about that.... appreciate the information
I am currently working for a company that is considering using a PC/104 setup for a interface modual for a small data collection unit. We don't need much in terms of power for the actual board so we may use just an old 486 style processor for it. My question is: What are some good distros out there for embedded Linux that run PC/104 boards, with networking, stripped down to a small size (Under 50,25megs?)? Are there some main distros that we might want to strip down and use? What challenges are there in getting things setup on a PC/104 board?
I don't understand the logic -- all this time and thought into something, and they use a hub? I can buy a very compact L2 switch at Fry's for less than $20... performance and power is obviously the intent with any cluster, so why choose a hub over a switch? who uses hubs for anything other than packet sniffing these days??
Cost and availability.
Most of the companies that have real cool pc/104 cpu modules only sell to resellers, and even the high 486/low pentium class ones are *expensive*I've been looking at PC/104 for use in mobile cluster, wearables, and mini-luggables for quite some time, and the main reason why I haven't been able to do any of the projects in my head is because I can't get the damn modules.
Granted, ePay has some stuff sometimes, but it's mostly outdated to the point of unuseability.
(useability: I have a pair of Dolch 486 luggables I like. I suppose 486DXes are pushing me, that's the absolute lowest I'd go)
Oh well, I'm sure by the time they're completely passe I'll be attending computer 'shows' where we all showcase our hot-rodded pc/104 boxen
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