[wplug] OT - PSU question

[Chris Romano]

haa.  good idea if I wanted to see how fast it melts.  I really want
to do for a few reasons.  First: just to do it.  Second: Use it to
learn about setting up and admin'ing a cluster.  Third: see if I can
program something on that will take advantage of the cluster setup.

I have never been good at documenting projects that I do, so there is
almost no chance of a website detailing how I did it.

The idea did kind of come from the recent slashdot listing about the
guy who built a 12U (i think) rack; although, I have thinking about it
for a while.  The main difference is he basically built 3U servers.  I
am thinking of a more "blade" design.  Each blade will have the usual
(mobo,lan,ram,cpu).  I wanted the PSU to be more"built" into the main
chassis and mount the plugs on the back so when you insert the blade
it connects to the power and lan connectors.  I debating about the HD.
 I think I might ditch the HD for a flash drive.  I am at the very
early stages of planning here, if you couldn't tell.

Chris

On 7/15/05, Nathan Marcus <latefreight at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then what, use this server to power a web page about how you built it,
> only to get slashdoted?
> 
> Good luck otherwise, I hope to you sucess on this gamble.
> 
> On 7/15/05, Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/15/05, Brian Gollum <brig at bidlum.net> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:24:03PM -0400, Chris Romano wrote:
> > > > I have been thinking about buying a couple VIA EPIA Mini-ITX boards
> > > > with the 1Ghz C3 chip.  These have very low power demands. So could I
> > > > take a decent sized PSU and splice a mini-itx connector to one of the
> > > > 4-pin power cords and run multiple boards from the same PSU?  Is this
> > > > just a terrible idea?
> > >
> > > Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the VIA EPIA Mini-ITX boards
> > > were powered via 20-pin ATX connectors. Or were you thinking of using
> > > individual DC-DC converters to get the various voltages provided by an
> > > ATX supply for each board from a single DC source? I suppose you could
> > > splice multiple ATX connectors onto a single PSU, but then you are
> > > likely to run into power timing and load issues very quickly.
> >
> > I was thinking about splicing multiple ATX connectors onto a single PSU.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Ultimately, I would classify this as a Bad Idea.
> >
> > Noted
> >
> > I was planning on playing with them.  What I am really thinking is ...
> > create my own blade server.  I was thinking that one PSU could power
> > multiple "blades".   I guess I could use individual PSU's but that
> > will take up more room.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
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