[time-nuts] single board PCs

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 7 01:59:13 UTC 2013


On 1/6/13 5:52 PM, gary wrote:
> This might be a good place to start looking.
>> http://beagleboard.org/project/BeagleTick/
>
> I got a beagleboard mx, but it is for a different project. I'm not up to
> speed on it enough to comment if this is the best solution. I can tell
> you the hardware design and more importantly the documentation of the
> hardware is very good..well compared to the competition. I passed up the
> pandaboard because I thought the hardware documentation was a bit skimpy.
>
> FWIW, you can run opensuse on it.
>
> It seems to me if you want to run matlab and labview, you will need a
> dual core atom at the very least. But that seems like it should be a
> different project.
>

Yup.. needs some serious computing horsepower.


> Network control means different things to different people. If you want
> NETWORK CONTROL (as in I am shouting), you probably want IMPI.
> Supermicro makes a D525 board with IMPI, intended for low power servers.


More like the only access is via SSH, http, telnet, etc.



>
>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/ich9/x7spe-hf-d525.cfm
>>
>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/X9/X9SBAA-F.cfm
>
> I only know about IMPI second hand, but system administrators swear by
> it, as in saved their arse! Remote operation is always kind of dicey if
> the remote device isn't working well. With IMPI, you can actually mess
> with the bios. Supposedly it ls like really being there.
>
>

Thanks, I'll take a look..  The ability to poke at the device remotely 
at a very low level is quite useful (e.g. if it's unattended).





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