Power consumption could pose a bit of a problem, but heat dissipation will
not be much of a problem soon.   I live in Canada and we're approaching the
winter months in the great white north.   A litle 68k cluster might help
defray some heating costs. ;)

Regards,

William


> From: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:48:38 +0000
> To: David Rogers <davidrogers23@earthlink.net>
> Cc: Joshua Coombs <jcoombs@gwi.net>, William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>,
> port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Beowulf
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Don't forget the power consumption (and the cost for the power) as well
> as getting rid of the heat (if that's a problem where you are right now).
> 
> For fun a IIci cluster is cool.  For real work it's not so cool
> since the power gets expensive.
> 
> You don't have to have the same cpu/memory for each node if you
> don't want.  What you will need to do is have each node look like
> any other node in the sense that the program foo is in the path
> and it runs.  If one node is a ppc and another is a 68k and a
> third is a sparc you just need the program to run the same.
> 
> cheers
> 
> bruce
> as
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:31:29PM -0500, David Rogers wrote:
>> I've been contemplating doing this with the several IIci's that I
>> have.  All I need is a few more hard drives and I'm gonna give it a
>> try...I just don't know what for yet though...
>> 
>> dave rogers
>> 
>> On Oct 11, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Joshua Coombs wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't see why it couldn't be done.  I've absolutely no experience
>>> with HPC setups, but I love pushing old hardware into new tasks,
>>> how can I help? : )
>>> 
>>> Joshua Coombs
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Duke" <wduke@cogeco.ca>
>>> To: <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:13 PM
>>> Subject: Beowulf
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I'm curious as to whether anybody has ever tinkered with the idea
>>>> of setting
>>>> up a 68k Mac Beowulf cluster using NetBSD?  I did do a quick
>>>> search on
>>>> Google and found that somebody in Japan was working on a 68k Mac
>>>> based HPC.
>>>> 
>>>> I think it would be an interesting project.   24 Quadra 700's or
>>>> Quadra
>>>> 605's running BSD or Linux, doing some high performance, relatively
>>>> speaking, computing.   I already have one Quadra 700 and an old 24
>>>> port
>>>> 10baseT switch that I could use.
>>>> 
>>>> Hmm, I just need 23 more Quadras to really start some super-
>>>> computing...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
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