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    Jul062009

    Helmer. A linux cluster in an IKEA Helmer cabinet.

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    AuthorBrandon Davenport DateJul 6, 2009

    Helmer is one year old now. Been working fantastic good, and rendered more the a half million frames. Going to rebuild the network from a normal switched to a direct bus. Now network is througha a normal consumer gigabit swithc that handle about 25 MB/s.

    Now I'll use a Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard for the new Intel i7 cpu as the backbone. I insert 3x2 gigabit network cards so all motherboards in helmer get a separate gigabit cable direct to the board. The new drives are 4x1TB enterprise WD in a raid-0 just for speed.

    Speed rocks. Safety is for wimps :) This all will in theory increase network bandwith from 25MB/s to 750MB/s!!! Now I can do video/large data processing and not just small hard crunshing stuff.

    Check out helmer here

    AuthorBrandon Davenport DateJul 6, 2009

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