11 Mar
2007
11 Mar
'07
6:37 a.m.
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, James wrote:
Andrew Back wrote:
I guess it depends how timing sensitive the links are - I have no idea.
Would be nice to be able to point your local farm at another and have it
boot from it and join in :o)
300 nodes you say... Is that a Whitecross box? I was at a seminar at HP
Labs recently where an ex-Whitecross (now Kognitio) exec did a talk. I
wish I'd asked him if they still get to pull out old transputer kit.
Andrew
So I went into the erm, server room, and pulled
apart the Meiko nodes and
took some pictures. Apologies for the poor quality, all I had was a camera
phone, not so great lighting (and an unsteady hand)...
CS/860 (a.k.a. Concerto) :
I wonder.... has anyone carried Inmos links over IP? When I get my 300 node
monster running it would be "fun" to network these Transputer machines.