Prefered motherboard for diskless client ?
Hi,
after setting up a small (openmosix)-cluster with clusterknoppix and booting clients with etherboot (yep, classic floppy) as a feasability study the next thing will be a real diskless (computing) cluster.
The diskless clients are considered to have the following parts:
- case (obviously no real problem)
- 512 MW to 1 GB RAM (numeric models require it)
- micro-atx motherboard with following components onboard
* vga (also used in terminal mode)
* LAN
* PXE enabled BIOS (boot via network (fire&forget))
* INTEL or AMD-CPU (mini-itx is nice, but the MIPS/$-ratio ...)
* no X-Server trouble with the associated chipset
- of course no spinning disks
Could anyone give a recomondatation for the motherboard ?
(Of course it should be a cheap one, we need more than one)
Thanks a lot,
Snooze
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