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[Devin M. Ash]

Aye, do that and send the URL to the beowulf list, I'll add a link at
Linuxberg and help put the word out. I'm sure people would be interested in
a beowulf archive.


"Niels R. Walet" wrote:

> > First: I have found some cheap systems (Zerus Hardware)
> > that will run ~ $385 diskless, but with network card,
> > video card, 128M ram, 366 Celeron that is upgradable to
> > PII or PIII Slot one processors. I can not find anything
> > cheaper that is upgradable to the 550 PIII's. Anyone
> > have any opinions on this cheapo system?
>
> Looks a good price to me, but whar is rthe quality of the memory/mobo?
>
> >
> > Second: I have found the Linksys 8 port KVM for $303.
> > This seems like a steal compared to others. Has anyone
> > found any less expensive?
>
> No nut I live in the UK :-)
>
> > Third: A less interesting questions unless you want to
> > take an easy jab at me. {:-) I understand the differences
> > between the switches and hubs, but has anyone benchmarked
> > the performance degredation when using a Hub? I do not
> > think I will cheap out here, but I was just interested
> > in if the bottle necks on diskless clients would be in
> > communicating with the server, or in the hub/switch.
>
> This is one for the FAQ: It really depends on your application.
> Since you have diskless clients, you will(?) both have NFS traffic
> and message passing at the same time, so you might also choose
> to double the number of NICs. Benchmarks are only useful for
> your application. (But prices are so low that I see no reason
> for buying a hub rather than a switch....).
>
> >
> > Lastly: Is there any reason why this list is not archived?
> > or is it? If not and it would be a pain to do so, would
> > it be of interest for me to start an archive as post it
> > on our site, and or, on our list server?
>
> It is: http://www.beowulf.org/listarchives/beowulf/
>
> Niels
>
> --
> Dr Niels R. Walet  http://www.phy.umist.ac.uk/Theory/people/walet.html
> Dept. of Physics,  UMIST,   P.O. Box 88,    Manchester,  M60 1QD,  U.K.
> Phone: +44(0)161-2003693 Fax: +44(0)161-2004303 Niels.Walet@umist.ac.uk

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