[Beowulf] ammonite

[Jim Lux]

At 03:19 PM 10/4/2004 -0700, Jack Wathey wrote:
>http://jessen.ch/ammonite/


Very nice.. particularly the efforts you put into the cooling air. The 
comment about flow against a pressure drop is very sound.

I realize it's a time thing, but had you considered removing the fans from 
the power supplies?

What's a rough order of magnitude cost on the blower/VFD?  Does this VFD 
have a "servo" input that could be used to automatically change blower 
speed in response to temperature?  (some VFDs have an analog input that can 
be used to set up a speed = linear function of input voltage, and by 
cleverly setting the gain and offset, you can do quite nicely)




James Lux, P.E.
Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems
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