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This is the story of Helmer. A linux cluster in a IKEA Helmer cabinet.
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| 3D computer rendering are very CPU intensive and the best way so speed up
| slow render problems, are usually to distribute them on to more computers.
| Render farms are usually very large, expensive and run using ALLOT of energy.
| I wanted to build something that could be put in my home, not make too much
| noise and run using very little energy... and be dirt cheep, big problem? :)
| no computer stuff cost almost nothing these days, it just a matter of finding
| fun stuff to play with.
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| I wanted to use Intel Quad core 65 nm or better. I surfed the web and found 6
| of then at a good price. Then I looked after the cheapest motherboard that
| could run these. The result of my investigation was the Gigabyte S-series
| GA-G33M-DS2R/S2 card.
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http://helmer.sfe.se/
Nice photos.
SUSE-Linux-on-IBM-loaned mainframe becomes teaching ground
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| While most computer science students learn skills on x86 servers, their
| counterparts at the University of Arkansas will now get hands-on experience
| on a new IBM system z900 running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1327045,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/64ua3p
"We should dedicate a cross-group team to come up with ways to leverage Windows
technically more."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft felon
Recent:
IBM: Mainframes enjoying global resurgence
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| In an email note, Madan Sheina, senior analyst at Ovum, said Cognos's recent
| move to put business-intelligence (BI) software on the IBM System z mainframe
| running Linux indicates that mainframes are far from being legacy systems.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39462450,00.htm
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