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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:43:20PM -0400, Joshua Coombs wrote:
> If there is interest, I can start trying to scrounge up enough parts 
> to make a 'franken-mac' to put into the cluster.  I've built one in 
..
> Do cluster machines have to be rack mount?

Yes.  This is one of the impediments.  Along with needing to support
serial console and be able to be power cycled remotely.

I've been looking for a G4 Xserve on eBay -- but all I can find now are
G5 models. :-(

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)