> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 22 13:20:59 1998
>
> I know that this is technically not about SMP... But people on this list might
> know the answer.
>
> I'm thinking of building a clustered compute server. It would have about
> 20-30 nodes consisting of the following:
>
> - motherboard
> - 333MHz Celeron/Mendicino CPU w/128M L2
> - CPU heat-sink fan
> - some inexpensive EIDE UltraDMA disk size between 4G and 16G
> - tulip-based 100Mbit/sec ethernet card
> - 256M ECC SDRAM
>
> Do you know of a rack-mount case that can hold lots of motherboards with one
> disk per motherboard? All of the rack-mount cases that I have seen have lots
> of drive bays. And because of the many drive bays, they only hold six
> rack-mount cases per rack. I don't need disk expandability. And I'd like to
> pack 20 to 30 nodes into one to two racks. Is that possible?
I've had the same problem. I haven't been able to find any usable RM
cases smaller than 4U. However, a company called WebEngine
(www.webengine.com) is coming out with a dual PII system that's 1U
high. I've got a couple of demo units coming in a couple of weeks.
They have a 3.5gbit/sec backplane for doing clustering/replication/
load balancing out of the box and 2 ethernet interfaces. They're
target market is NT (blech), but I believe they're doing internal
testing with linux. I'm certainly going to load linux and do some
testing on them when I get mine. I'll keep the list posted.
Chris
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Christopher Mauritz
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