I love the idea of this, it's just a worry that carrying this through airport security might be a tad more difficult than your standard laptop.
-- jmcg > On Dec 16, 2014, at 11:40, mad...@li.org <jonhal...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am building a small demonstration supercomputer out of five Banana Pis, a > Parallella board, a few other components and some Acrylic plastic. The goal > is to be able to put this "supercomputer" in a brief case, take it to a > university or conference, pull it out and within a few minutes be able to > demonstrate how to program or administer an HPC device using Free Software > tools. When finished the unit will break down into two parts: > > (1) A base containing two 1-TB disks and an 8-port Gbps switch > (2) A "tower" of 5-6 Banana Pis and one Parallella board as the computing hub > (3) A power supply capable of providing the power (5 V, 15A) for the > "supercomputer" > > I need to drill some holes in the Acrylic during the week after New Years so > I can put this all together. With luck this will take about an hour or so of > time with a drill press, and the largest hole being 1/4" diameter, and some > smaller holes for mounting disk drives, the Gbps switch. > > If anyone has a small drill press in the greater Nashua, area .that I could > use I would greatly appreciate it. I will show up with paper patterns made > to show where to cut the holes. > > Thanks, > > maddog > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
