[Beowulf] A Cluster of Motherboard.

Andrew Piskorski atp at piskorski.com
Thu Nov 10 08:54:25 PST 2005


On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 05:35:03AM -0800, Jim Lux wrote:

> However, lots of people have successfully built clusters from stacks of 
> mobos.  I think the biggest one (in terms of # of nodes) is the one with a 
> dozen or so Via mini-ATX boards.  I don't know that I've seen any bare 
> bones clusters with more than 20 nodes.

Oh, I know of at least 3 bare-board clusters much larger than that
(and some smaller):

  http://jessen.ch/ammonite/
  http://joule.bu.edu/~hazen/LinuxCluster/
  http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~stadel/zBox/

  http://www.abo.fi/~physcomp/cluster/celeron.html
  http://physics.bu.edu/~sandvik/clusters/abo/celeron.html

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