Xpirit disse:
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PS. já repararam que um gajo fazendo um stack de Mac Mini e Aopen Mini ficamos com ambas as plataformas num espaço reduzido e almost-zero-noise? Interessante!
Já existem no mercado outras soluções que permitem o mesmo potencial.
Não se deixem enganar pela foto, os discos são de portátil e cada uma das boards ( edit: uma a 1 Ghz e mais quatro a 800 Mhz ) tem 17cm por 17 cm. a caixa é bastante pequena para um cluster de 5 cpus.
mais exemplos:
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/tera-itx/
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/
e esta solução, ainda aumenta as possibilidades dos micro clusters - 12cm * 12cm :
- VIA Eden-N NanoBGA Processor
Chipset
- VIA CN400 North Bridge
- VIA VT8237(R) South Bridge
System Memory
- 1 DDR266/333/400 SODIMM socket
- Up to 1GB memory size
VGA -Integrated S3 Graphics UniChrome™ Pro IGP graphics with MPEG-2 decoder/MPEG-4 acceleration
Expansion Slots - 1 Mini-PCI
Onboard IDE - 2 UltraDMA 133/100/66 Connector (Secondary 2.0mm 44pins pin header)
Onboard Serial ATA - 1 SATA connector
Onboard LAN - VIA VT6103 10/100 Base-T Ethernet PHY
Onboard Audio - VIA VT1617A 6-channel AC'97 Codec
Onboard TV-Out - VIA VT1625 HDTV Encoder
Onboard I/O Connectors - 2 USB connector for 4 additional USB 2.0 ports
- 1 LVDS/CAP connector
- 1 CD audio-in connector
- 1 VIP connector
- 1 PS2 connector
- 1 Fan connector
- 1 YPbPr connector
- 1 LPC connector
- 1 Nano-iTX power connector
Back Panel I/O - 1 RJ-45 LAN port
- 2 USB 2.0 ports
- 1 VGA port
- 1 RCA port
- 1 S-Video port
- 3 Audio jacks: line-out, line-in and mic-in (Horizontal, Smart 5.1 Support)
BIOS
- Award BIOS
- 4/8Mbit flash memory
System Monitoring & Management
- CPU Temperature monitoring
- CPU voltage monitoring
- FAN control
- Watch Dog Timer
- Wake-on-LAN, Keyboard-Power-on, Timer-Power-on
- System power management
- AC power failure recovery
Operation Temperature - 0°C upto 47°C~50°C (by different items)
Operation Humidity - 0%~93%
Form Factor
- Nano-ITX (8 layer)
- 12 cm x 12 cm
full specs aqui:
http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_N_spec.jsp?motherboardId=221