[olug] $27 IBM thin clients (model#8361-110)

[Jay Woods]

I can't help myself, but must point out that 200 MHz boxes are available 
at the Computer Fair for $25 each. I buy one each month just to play 
with. If you get interested, please leave the desktop DELLs, GATEWAYs, 
and MICRONs for me :-). You can have the HPs, IBMs, and COMPAQs in any 
format or any box in server format.

Ken wrote:

>
> Brian Wiese wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:48:04 -0600
>> Ken <emptymm at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> |Ken wrote:
>> |
>> |> It would be a cheap way to start experimenting with bewoulf 
>> clusters :)
>> |
>> |Sorry, I'll need to read closer next time... *diskless* terminal.. 
>> |Without access to the local storage then it's a whole new ballgame.  
>> I'd |guess it's just an X-client.
>> |-Ken
>>
>> If it has a CPU, RAM, and NIC, it can be part of a cluster... local
>> storage is not really required.  The best thing I've seen for this
>> (perhaps the easiest?) is to bootup your master server with
>> clusterknoppix, and you have all these lovely thin clients ready to boot
>> off the network and join the cluster!!! muahahahah... ?
>
>
> hmmm.. "prepare for assimilation".
>
>>
>> http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/
>> "No cdrom drive/harddisk/floppy needed for the clients
>> openMosix autodiscovery - new nodes automatically join the cluster (no
>> configuration needed)"
>>
>> the K12LTSP + OpenMOSIX howto says the clients need floppy?
>> http://www.k12os.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14
>> http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ltsp-omr4-1.html
>>
>> something else I found, diskless oscar clusters
>> http://thin-oscar.ccs.usherbrooke.ca/?t[]=tt.1&mod=Page.Display
>>
>>
>
> Cool stuff..  So at 16MB of memory a piece it would only take $864 
> plus shipping to build a _massive_ 512MB cluster..
>
> Would still be fun to play with though.
>
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