the functional pcb wall

ghost001985 · February 1, 2016

while watching the WAN show, Linus talked about a pcb wall. thinking about that the next day an idea came to me, why not make a working pcb wall? ie, a cluster system. so i went on amazon and did some looking, found a cheapo LGA 1155 microATX Motherboard, dual core, 1u power supply, ram, and hard drive, all totaled to $169.55 per node. it was just a quick look so im sure you could find cheaper.

But there would be issues with it.

1: If you have different Motherboards then you couldn't ghost the drives, meaning you would have to setup each system by hand.

2: Networking would be a nightmare.

3: Power issues.

4: Power buttons? and so on. . . .

then again you would have some great wall art, and a supercomputer.

Enderman · February 1, 2016

thats not a supercomputer, thats just a few pathetically weak consumer systems on a wall
free geek did it for ram testing, LTT could do it too if they wanted, but they will probably just do it with old/dead hardware because all the new stuff is for builds and testing and stuff

ghost001985 · February 1, 2016

On 2/1/2016 at 9:45 AM, Enderman said:

thats not a supercomputer, thats just a few pathetically weak consumer systems on a wall
free geek did it for ram testing, LTT could do it too if they wanted, but they will probably just do it with old/dead hardware because all the new stuff is for builds and testing and stuff

no im saying per node. you would network 20 to 50, or how ever many, nodes together.

lets do some math, the duel 18 core Xeon server would cost well over $10000. so we will start there, 10000 / 180 " add in shipping and tax", thats 55.5, take 5 off for switches and cat5e. so thats 50 nodes, equals a 100 cores, and 200 gb of ram.