[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Mike Johnson]

Loomis, Rip [GILBERT.R.LOOMIS at saic.com] wrote:
 
> You don't need the Cray...just "the little machine that goes
> *ping*".  I've seriously considered trying to find a 2U
> rackmount that I could drill for LED holes in the front, and
> just run it as a spectrum analyzer off MP3s or something.
> Our network/telco room is too boring and needs more
> blinkenlights.

We had a bunch of dead 1U ATX cases laying around and we came up with a
plan.  Pull all the LEDs, fans and a couple power supplies.  Take all
this and build a rack mount LED array complete with fans and redundant
power supplies.  We even pondered making the whole thing controllable
via serial.

Never happened, though.

Mike
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