All the components are readily available - including Linux;-)
The only thing missing is a nice, small and noiseless cabinet, which will hold a microATX/FlexATX motherboard and not stand out when placed next to the TV.
Does anybody know about such a cabinet - one that I could actually place in my living room without my girlfriend complaining?
PCI-X is a motherboard to expansion card interconnect, while Infiniband is a networking protocol and interconnect for linking systems. Both are medium performance expansion-bus specifications. The I/O Hub is a very slow speed interconnect between two proprietary chips. These standards are optimized toward the constraints of connecting external components and computer systems, namely with low cost connectors, long cable runs, device sharing, etc. HyperTransport technology is optimized to chip interconnect and is designed to operate at much higher bandwidths by eliminating many of the constraints necessary in expansion bus designs.
So...
HyperTransport = chip to chip
PCI/3GIO = motherboard to expansion cards
InfiniBand = box to box
Each of these technologies are designed with differenct applications in mind and therefore different constraints and complexity. There is no such thing as a "one size fits all" bus.
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All the components are readily available - including Linux ;-)
The only thing missing is a nice, small and noiseless cabinet, which will hold a microATX/FlexATX motherboard and not stand out when placed next to the TV.
Does anybody know about such a cabinet - one that I could actually place in my living room without my girlfriend complaining?
HyperTransport = chip to chip
PCI/3GIO = motherboard to expansion cards
InfiniBand = box to box
Each of these technologies are designed with differenct applications in mind and therefore different constraints and complexity. There is no such thing as a "one size fits all" bus.