[AG-TECH] Single Linux Box Node

[Jay Beavers]

We're waiting for the next generation Intel Pentium IV chipset and
processors to ship.  This will provide us with Dual Pentium IV 1.7 GHz
CPUs, one 32 bit PCI bus and one 64 bit PCI bus.

Once we receive one of these boxes, our intention is to test 30 video
streams in, two out.  We feel that this should be very easily
obtainable, leaving us plenty of room to expand to either encoder more
video streams or take on more intensive shared workspaces such as 3D
virtual environments.

Timeline is we will receive one of these boxes in the next few weeks
from Dell and they plan to ship them commercially sometime in the next
few months.

 - jcb

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Coffey [mailto:richardc at cs.utah.edu] 
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:56 AM
To: Samuel T. Liston
Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Single Linux Box Node


Hey Sam,

It violated the spec at the time of the Access Grid inception. Most
machines today still cannot handle 30 streams of video in, 3 streams of
video out, audio, and have a desktop that can also run dppt and various
other visualization and groupware tools. I wonder if it might be
possible to bring the number of machines down to two or three though....
Hmmm... Thoughts from ANL? Microsoft? LBNL?

Richard C.
SCI Institute

----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel T. Liston" <stliston at chpc.utah.edu>
To: <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 12:21 PM
Subject: [AG-TECH] Single Linux Box Node


> Has anyone tried building a node from a single linux box?
>
> Sam
>
> -------
> Samuel T. Liston
> Technical Assisstant, Digital Video
> stliston at chpc.utah.edu
>
> University of Utah
> Center for High Performance Computing
> 155 South 1452 East Rm. 405
> Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0190
>
>