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Circuit board manufacturers all over the world do this already to stress
test their products. You can buy environmental chambers that range from
tabletop units to huge room sizes.
The problem with a standard refrigerator is humidity. Occasional moisture
on your food isn't a big deal. Condensation on your motherboards is not so
good.
You can buy good quality portable air conditioners (or even non portable)
that can provide a supply of cold and *dry* air, which you could pipe into a
fridge at the top with a return at the bottom.
Hard disks are specced to run at plenty low temperatures, so they could be
run inside the cold box.
The purpose of the whole exercise is to get alot of computing power for low
cash outlay. While the hardware is always plummeting in price, you have to
install win2k on all the systems. This is still a big dollar chunk, unless
you dont pay Mr. Gates for the software. Not that I would condone such a
criminal act ;-)
The big cost in the whole project is time. The time value spent creating
and maintaining this beast could easily pay for some very beefy hardware.
-Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Brown" <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Omega-List@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: the ultimate .............
> Hello John,
>
> I would look at elinux.com they have windoz also, 1U rack mount
> starting around 800.00
>
> JN> Ok... but where to buy reliable (but reasonably priced) rack mount
machines?
>
> i thought of this idea take a refrigerator or freezer then using 3/16
> diameter all thread buy up a buch of mother boards with on board nic
> and vid then string them up on the all thread one at a time a couple
> of inches apart from one another. then stack them in the freezer
> either with or without the hardrives (haven't decided yet) poke a hole
> in the side of the freezer to run cables out and there you have it.
>
> the poor mans cray.. ;-) now add the win2k cluster server and we
> could have a party.
>
> ps poor man's cray is a trademark of mb and if the idea is used it
> must be licensed from same.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Have a Great Day, Mark
>
> http://www.markbrown.com
>
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