[geeks] Pico-ITX board

[Lionel Peterson]

On Oct 30, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> On Oct 28, 2008, at 02:32 , Alex Feinberg wrote:
>>> Mini-ITX, Micro-ATX. Now, Pico-ITX:
>>>
>>>   http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=690
>>>
>>>  This is slightly smaller (by dimensions, not width) than the  
>>> original
>>> iPhone, yet features a VIA C7 processor. Trying to brainstorm
>>> projects to do with  (read: execuses for getting) one. Anyone played
>>> with one yet?
>> It would seem fast enough to do things like DNS too.
>> Maybe you could strap it to a small hard drive or flash drive and  
>> cram it into tiny one-shot servers.
>
> I'd love to have blade servers based on these.  It would cut power  
> consumption considerably.

But, at what cost to comutation/clock time?

I suppose you could rig up something like the old "multia cluster"  
where the raw MBs are shoved in a cabinet, sharing one, big PS.

Lionel