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Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Parvus Corp | Subject: PC/104 products
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 September 2002
PC/104 components make up portable Linux
cluster
Parvus Corp has helped Sandia National Laboratories to develop a portable Linux cluster computer system based on commercial-off-the-shelf PC/104 technology.
Parvus Corp has helped Sandia National Laboratories to develop a portable Linux cluster computer system based on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) PC/104 technology While cluster computers typically combine multiple desktop-sized PCs to work in parallel on problems too large for a single computer, Sandia's Minicluster leverages embedded PC components to achieve a high-performance, low-cost parallel processing system roughly the size of a breadbin
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Computers such as the Minicluster could potentially be used to demonstrate a wide variety of scientific and business applications, including weather prediction, human genome analysis, pharmaceutical design, aircraft and automobile design, seismic exploration, artificial intelligence, data mining and financial analysis, among others.
"By utilising Parvus Corporation's components, packaging, and systems integration services, Sandia was able to quickly complete the Minicluster project", said Mitch Williams, engineer at Sandia's Embedded Reasoning Institute (ERI).
"Our design successfully integrates all standard features of normal-sized rack-mounted clusters, including individual keyboard, video and mouse access to every node, while minimising size to barely over a foot tall and five inches wide".
The unit incorporates a Linux OS, four PC/104 processor nodes, a 10BaseT private network, power supply, KVM switch, and an external PCMCIA wireless connection.
A number of standard PC/104 products from Parvus went into the cluster design, including: a dual PCMCIA interface board; two 10Mbit Ethernet hubs; PC/104+ power interface board; PC/104 double-height adapters; PC/104 quad CPU switch; and a SnapStik incremental card cage.
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