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- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19I was hoping to find something tasty, but all I found were electrical components in an article from last year. Good pictures nonetheless...
- payrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I'd like to be a fly on the wall when security opened it! Damn someone would be missing their flight! LoL
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Just try getting that lunchbox through airport security.
- speezer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Where's the penguin sandwich?
- traherom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"I ddnt c ne bnchmrks"
Astonding. I didn't know I could be made to hate anyone just by the fact that they didn't spell a single word out. "I" doesn't count, obviously. - TopherT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Power of a single modern laptop my ass.
- darkinferno9908, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The sad part? ...If I were a father, I'd probably send my child with a lunchbox like that saying something like "Binary - the ladies love it" with a wink...
- tomvendetta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That would be great.
- spkthed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, the implications here are pretty cool! But the real question here is where will you keep your PB&J sandwiches?
What I found really interesting is that a Pentium M takes 20A peak power! - PRlME, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i have no idea what i'm lookin at here....is it like ah lil super computer?
if it is that would be nice for like ah render farm or some thing nice password cracker - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2-_-
- guttertrash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i would be more interested in stats, but if its using arm7 processors they are what you use to build routers, not exactly high performance hehehe
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, by special software, I mean a customized version of Linux designed to run on clusters, and special client applications, since you can't just run any SMP/multithreaded app, and you need to recompile everything since they're StrongARM processors and not x86 procs.
And as for the quad-core dying horribly if you lose one CPU, the linux box is a portable LUNCHBOX, so hardware failure wouldn't matter when your system isn't designed to be running 24/7 for mission critical operations. Besides, when is the last time you've seen a modern processor fail? Even if you take the heatsink and fan off a modern CPU, it doesn't cause damage. At best it slows down, at worse it shuts down. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3yes but it'd only have the power of a single modern laptop, and it'd cost 5x as much those little pc104 boards aren't cheap.
interesting project but ultimately useless. - punchingjudy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aww, I wanted an actual Linux lunchbox. :(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.spritesmods.com/?art=wtcluster
This guy built 1 with win terminals but the performance was sucks. I built one for fun about 2 years ago with 2 dual athlon mp machine (not tons of crap from the dump), that what I call some cluster, not junk like this 2 project :/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://linux.engine.net
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What good is this? They don't run an x86 instruction set, so they need special software. They're individually slow, so the entire cluster still doesn't have much power. And being a cluster, they can't take advantage of simple multithreaded apps.
And what good is a portable cluster? Why would you need to have a cluster that was portable like this? I'd say you'd be a lot better off with a conventional ATX case (Hey, still needs just one power cable!) and a quad core processor (such as Kentfield, the Core 2 Duo server chip). Those 4 cores would likely outperform the 16-node StrongARM cluster, and it could run any OS (Linux, Windows), and *ANY* multithreaded app could take advantage of the multiple cores. - PRlME, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1read what Guspaz said^
- rasputnik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If by special software you mean 'something other than windows', then yes.
And your quad-core will die horribly if it loses 1 cpu... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4"his cluster consisted of four Advanced Digital Logic boards, using 277MHz Pentium processors"
wouldn't even be able to keep up with the new core duo's. so like i said noobs, it'd be slow. - jldugger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What does running i386 make special about clustering? They're strongARM, yes, but I promise you someone, somewhere had to compile your i386 apps too. In fact, I believe Debian has an ARM distribution. Getting it installed there would be tricky, but probably doable. As far as cluster programming goes, that depends on how you want to go about it. Multithreaded programming isn't the only way to take advantage of multiple processors, and lots of high scalablity software disreguards that approach as unworkable on a NUMA machine. MPICH and such offers a network level system for cluster computing that's often used in physics simulations and such.
As for the portable aspect, sometimes you just gotta do it for the fun of it ;) - minsucks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0then why oh why are we commenting on it :)
But seriously what would you want this cluster for? The questions has been asked above but no-one's answered it. - justinjacobs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2http://duggmirror.com/hardware/The_Ultimate_Linux_Lunchbox/
- Protoman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Could someone sum it up for me?
What exactly does this piece of machinery do?
:) - antechinus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1This article has nothing to do with Web 2.0, Ubuntu, Apple or McDonalds
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3I ddnt c ne bnchmrks
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I was hoping to find something good to eat in the lunchbox, but all I found was something called fsck. Sounds er, appetizing.
