On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, dbpalan wrote:
> From what I captured in the article, it just show how would you
> "mount" the boards with the specially designed screws, without any
> information how to connect the boards (Seems there is cable out from
> the PC/104 slots but cannot see how is its connection) , what is the
> purpose for making this "7200 cluster" and even any kind of
> performance information.
MGS beat me to posting about this article, I just read it last night -
really interest and I think Technologics have a wonderful PR opportunity
with this.
The Linux Journal Resource URL for the article is at
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8533
The group that built it do cluster s/w development. I don't think they are
that interested in performance, but want a low powered development box
that is portable etc. Seemingly they will have it at SC/05 in November
http://sc05.supercomputing.org/
There are developing cluster stuff to work across mixed architecture
clusters.
I think the things that is really really important is
- as PR for Technologics, the board has obviously proved to be a perfect
implementation and development board for Vanilla Linux development.
The guys didn't report any problems they had running this ARM cluster
over running their IA86 clusters
- Linux's wonderful crossplatform reach. If you can do it on IA86, on
standard Linux desktops/servers, you can do it on ARM and loads of
other architectures. This is PR for linux.
Jim
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> > There is a fascinating article in the November 2005 issue of Linux
> > Journal describing the clustering of 16 TS-7200 boards and stuffing
> > the works into a small plastic toolbox. This is must reading for
> > anyone interested in embedded Linux.
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> > The article was written by Ron Minnich, a research scientist at the
> > Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is titled, "The Ultimate Linux
> > Lunchbox." Kudos to Technologic Systems for creating such a cool
> device.
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> > For those who do not have access to the article and it there is enough
> > interest, I will try and get reprint permission from the magazine so
> > we can post it somewhere.
> >
> > MGS
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