PowerPC Beowulf Who?

[Douglas Godfrey]

At 5:28 AM -0500 2/25/99, sean o'malley wrote: [Re: PowerPC Beowulf Who?]
>Brief:
>Firewire is _begging_ for clustering/Assymetrical processing (think about a
>block of networked RAM). Its almost a waste not to use it for that.
>
>Second its begging to _not_ to use TCP/IP
>
>Third I dont think it needs routers/switches and it definately doesnt need
>as much work to install a network vs fibre.
>
>Fourth if someone wants to hack at a firewire driver try (I dont have a
>firewire)
>http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~epirker/ieee1394.html
>
>Fifth, I really need to read up on this stuff =)
>
>Sixth, Compaq is selling Linux clusters with the new Alphas. (or so i read
>somewhere)
>
snip

Marathon Computer <http://www.marathoncomputer.com> is making rack mountable
cases for the iMAC which can put 2 iMAC CPUs in a 1U ISO rack mount case.
This lets you put 120 iMACs and 8 16way 100baseT switches in a single rack.
You can mount an entire 266mhz PPC, 120 CPU Beowulf cluster in a single rack.


Thanx...
  Doug



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