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Sutaru Tsureku Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
I don't know if it's possible. I searched the web, but couldn't find... I would like to have a 'mini LAN PC': I would like to search the web, Skype with cam, write & print letters and watch & control the BOINC client(s) of my crunching PC(s) via LAN. OS Windows (XP?). (Usage of the OS of the crunching PC?) Low power consumption. Not much or no heat generation. Very quiet or noiseless. Just a CPU. Very small GPU. Without HDD. HDD of crunching PC should be used. I have a DSL Router with 1 GBit/s LAN. This would be enough speed for HDD communication? Is such a thing possible? How much would the HDD communication influence the crunching PC? Thanks. :-) * Best regards! :-) * Philip J. Fry, team seti.international founder. * Optimize your PC for higher RAC. * SETI@home needs your help. * |
Ianab Send message Joined: 11 Jun 08 Posts: 732 Credit: 20,635,586 RAC: 5 |
All sort of things are possible If you just wanted to browse the net and control other PCs remotely you could use a Rasberry Pi stuck the back of your monitor with Velcro. Total power draw is something like 2 watts. http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide If you want a "real" PC running windows then something like this? http://www.viewsonic.com/us/computers/pc-minis/vot133b-vot133b.html Hard disk speed as almost zero effect on crunching speed. Might affect boot speed, but once the machine is running there is very little disk access. Ian |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22186 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Cheap net-book? (You might be able to pick one up with a broken screen for a reasonable price and use your existing screen instead) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
You could use PXE to boot an OS from a networked machine. Most NIC's I see these days for normal desktop systems can be configured for this. In the event you find hardware that doesn't support it you could maybe use a small flash drive to boot from and then load your preferred network OS image. I would expect many of the Intel Atom & AMD APU boards would support this. You can download the manual for the board to verify. Another option would be to use a bootable CD/DVD or flash drive to load up your preferred OS. Then map a network drive to your networked machine for a working directory. BOINC only writes to the local disc at intervals, IIRC the default is 60 seconds. So I would not expect disc activity to effect it much. I have BOINC on the same drive as all of my OS ISO images at work. With several machines pulling data to install OS's at the same time I have not seen any issues with BOINC on it. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
spitfire_mk_2 Send message Joined: 14 Apr 00 Posts: 563 Credit: 27,306,885 RAC: 0 |
These have hd, but that is not really a big deal: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=A410-C2D22-AIO-17-R&cat=SYS http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=OPTI-745U-C2D24-MAR-R&cat=SYS Netbook is an interesting option. |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
Part of me wants to suggest a mini-ITX setup. Boards are full of features but extremely compact. You can get a really cheap CPU to throw on it and just enough RAM for what you need, and you can either get a fanless heatsink, or just get a low-wattage CPU and the fan will hardly make any noise at all, and then you can get a very tiny case for it all to sit in. but a netbook just sounds like probably the simplest and cheapest solution. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
Mike Davis Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 240 Credit: 5,402,361 RAC: 0 |
Depends what sort of money you want to spend... You could go for an Intel NUC which pretty much would have what youre wanting but being intel arent very cheap (but they are only 4"x4"), you can also get similar type things from Foxconn & Sapphire and many others that are AMD based (and cheaper). Then you have the likes of the raspberry pi like someone else mentioned. All depends on prices and exactly what you want it to do really! http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=43&catid=2502 |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
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