Wireless Beowulf?

John Hearns John.Hearns at cern.ch
Tue Nov 26 01:13:14 PST 2002


On 25 Nov 2002, Dean Johnson wrote:

> 
> I've had this dream of paired wireless dongles for things like serial
> lines to the kvm switch, or low speed admin network connections. That
> would save a lot of wires in a properly setup cluster. Reasonable
> bandwidth with a range of like 10 ft would be fine in most cases. But,
> alas, it is but a dream and would likely be too expensive if someone did
> do something in like bluetooth (or whatever).
> 
Good idea.
A quick Google turns up: 
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/digitally-unique/bt2000rs.html
Sadly at $00 I think ordinary cables are here to stay :-)
And it doesn't say if you need one for each end of the link or not...




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