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Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 02:36:11 -0800
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Subject: Re: Cheap, integrated, 64-bit, 4 GB RAM computer hardware?
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The closest thing I would say would be the Parallela
board<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone>,
but considering it's a 13Ghz ARM board and 1GB RAM in total, it probably
wouldn't be of much help. You theoretically could assemble a network of
Raspberry Pi's for parallel computing (beowulf cluster), but I don't think
anyone's written the code for a caching proxy on one of those things.

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Jack Bates <7g9...@nottheoilrig.com> wrote:

> Hello Hackspace, do you know about any cheap, integrated, and widely
> available computer hardware that you can recommend? I need 64-bit, and at
> least 4 GB of RAM. Low(ish) power consumption would be a bonus
>
> Here at the village in Rwanda, we currently have three Asus EeeBox B202
> machines: One is a monitoring server (Nagios, ntop, Cacti, and SmokePing),
> one is a caching proxy (Apache Traffic Server), and one is running Apache,
> Samba, and OpenLDAP. The nice thing about these EeeBox machines is that we
> have a bunch of spare units on hand. When hardware breaks, there isn't
> always the technical capacity to open, diagnose, and repair it, or
> replacement parts aren't cost effective, or the repaired equipment works
> unreliably. But swapping a failing unit for an identical, working spare is
> simpler (which is why I'm looking for other cheap, integrated hardware)
>
> The caching proxy in particular badly needs to be upgraded (which is why
> I'm looking for 64-bit and 4 GB of RAM)
>
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The closest thing I would say would be the <a href=3D"http://www.kickstarte=
r.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone">Parallela =
board</a>, but considering it&#39;s a 13Ghz ARM board and 1GB RAM in total,=
 it probably wouldn&#39;t be of much help. You theoretically could assemble=
 a network of Raspberry Pi&#39;s for parallel computing (beowulf cluster), =
but I don&#39;t think anyone&#39;s written the code for a caching proxy on =
one of those things.<br>
<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Jack Bates <=
span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:7g9...@nottheoilrig.com" target=3D"_=
blank">7g9...@nottheoilrig.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=
=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padd=
ing-left:1ex">
Hello Hackspace, do you know about any cheap, integrated, and widely availa=
ble computer hardware that you can recommend? I need 64-bit, and at least 4=
 GB of RAM. Low(ish) power consumption would be a bonus<br>
<br>
Here at the village in Rwanda, we currently have three Asus EeeBox B202 mac=
hines: One is a monitoring server (Nagios, ntop, Cacti, and SmokePing), one=
 is a caching proxy (Apache Traffic Server), and one is running Apache, Sam=
ba, and OpenLDAP. The nice thing about these EeeBox machines is that we hav=
e a bunch of spare units on hand. When hardware breaks, there isn&#39;t alw=
ays the technical capacity to open, diagnose, and repair it, or replacement=
 parts aren&#39;t cost effective, or the repaired equipment works unreliabl=
y. But swapping a failing unit for an identical, working spare is simpler (=
which is why I&#39;m looking for other cheap, integrated hardware)<br>

<br>
The caching proxy in particular badly needs to be upgraded (which is why I&=
#39;m looking for 64-bit and 4 GB of RAM)<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=
=3D"#888888"><br>
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