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GuardMoony

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  1. Thinking of power supplies again. Check out this puppy. From just one of those I can power 2 Odroids off of 12v at 93+ % efficiency (expected power draw of an Odroid in full swing with idle gpu is 1.5-1.6A)! It's 2cm high, but so is the odroid so I'l still happy.

    Only drawback is I'm going to need a voltmeter because the output voltage is set by turning that little screw on the blue brick and there isn't exactly a 'setting' for 5v. Then again, I'm pretty sure I'll find a way to make good use of that aswell plus I found one for under 10 euros on deal extreme again (they're true to their name, I'll give 'em that).

    You do mean 93% of a 83% power supply. getting you near 80% or something in total ;) About the voltage. You have a litle room, But your best getting as close as possible to that point :)

    Btw where are you ordering those odroids ? Any dealers in the eu ?

  2. ESXi version is completly free. it got some minor things you need to do manualy. Like taking backups and such.

    Also they limit the memory to 32GB per cpu. But for small businesses and own use its perfect :)

    for small clients we use i7 with a decent mobo. ( also if you need usb pass-through your cpu needs a special visualization option )

    You could also go for something like this:

    http://thehomeserverblog.com/esxi/esxi-5-0-amd-whitebox-server-for-500-with-passthrough-iommu-build-2/

    If you really want it to be fast trow in a SSD for storage.

    For AD learning. maybe you can start of with a old server 2003 license ( they still got 2015 support, DONT TAKE SBS )

    other option are buying a real cheap ass server or 2nd hand server that supports ESXi

    You could run like a network share server on this. But media server isn't really a option. ( esxi doesn't give a screen output ) So your better off using something like a pi or odroid or ... for media server and maybe use the esxi as a storage. Or if your tv supports DLNA you could try that.

  3. http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~trahay_f/odroid_supercomputer/

    Performance on one node (4 cores):

    Odroid: 3.79 GFLOPS

    Performance on the whole cluster:
    Odroid (6 nodes, 24 cores) : 16.13 GFLOPS.

    As I suspected ...

    Running flat-out processing tasks individually, 6 ODROID x 3.79 GFLOPS = 22.74GFLOPS
    Running 6 nodes: Odroid reaches 16.13 GFLOPS

    Nodes lose (22.74 - 16.13) 6.61GFLOPS vs individual ODROIDS running flat-out.

    ... in fact a lot worse that I thought. Nearly 2 ODROIDS-worth of effort lost. icon_cry.gif

    So from a test that ran last year you can see the results if you would cluster the odroids. It has a big drop in performance compared to

    running them standalone. But this was on a test with high traffic if i remember. so maybe its less on pure computing setup

  4. As far as look into making computer nodes / clustering. The penalty is to big on the odroid.

    Towards the gigabit. Why get a gigabit switch when the odroid got only 100Mbit connections. Ok the processor has a higher switching pass-through. But will you have so much data traffic ? that's the main question

    As for the switches. Because of my job i can the zyxel without any problem. the tp-link is a good alternative.

  5. Yeah. also possible.

    I myself am looking for a small BOINC group/cluster. Maybe running 1 of them as GW. And using networkboot to load the others. For switches ill probaly gone use zyxel ES-108A ( dont need 1gbit on them )They run of 5V 0.6A

  6. yes you can do that. But they check how many times the dns names gets a lookup. and it thats to low, you get a mail to see if you still want it active. If you don't click the link keep active the dns will be removed the next month it checks.

    So its a pretty good system but not if you only use the dns a few times a year.

  7. Most of the time tracking stops at the airport in the USA where it leaves for the country of destination. its probably already at customs in UK. Mostly it takes a while at costums

  8. yeah the delivery got kinda delayed. because its pretty new. ( kickstart project ) But they always been given decent information. And why things are delayed. atm there clearing a 15 000 device backlog. I ordered 1 in november to mess around with. At least they gave every1 the choice for a free t-shirt or a case.

  9. Like Wifi-stuff said. To have all the need stuff use tap ( layer 2 ).

    It's also better if do the setup yourself. That way at least you learn how it works, and it something goes wrong later you know what the problem could be. All the info you need, you can find in the 3 guides posted on this thread:

    http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/miscellaneous/76-ethernet-bridging.html

    http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Brctl_command

    http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/vpn.client.openvpn.tap

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