The Crate

A few years back I started work on a Beowulf cluster in a 19in rack, it followed the usual Beowulf principles of using standard PC hardware components but it did have a few speciallist items such as carrying handles, rack mounting strips front and back, hand cut front panels and PSU splitters that allow 2 motherboards to be run from one power supply. It's also got about 800GB of disk storage controlled off of a IDE raid controller, I've yet to check the performance of that. It's likely that new Sata controllers would work better for the cabling and performance. The motherboards are vertically mounted to allow air to flow between them and if I ever get around to it there will be fan trays in the bottom blowing upwards between the boards. The Gigabit network should be plenty though.

It's still sitting unfinished in the corner of my lounge and I've got to move house next week so it's due for some urgent work to make it portable without bits falling off.

However, a couple of chaps at a university have completed something quite similar and christened it Microwulf. Theirs is a bit smaller than mine and in some ways not as elegant, however it does actually work so I support they deserve a pat on the back.

Mosh by Nokia

Forum Nokia is currently trialing MOSH (“MObilize and SHare”). Regardless of your mobile device’s manufacturer or make, MOSH enables you to create, collect and share your content and applications in a community setting. Create, upload, collect and share applications (like games, software mashups, videos, blogs, music and photos) all from your mobile.

http://mosh.nokia.com/