[time-nuts] single board PCs

jim s jwsmail at jwsss.com
Mon Jan 7 02:19:32 UTC 2013


On 1/6/2013 5:59 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> 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).
>
here is another board I ran  across while looking for boards with SATA.  
No sata here (or on any I've looked at), but it might be something for 
you to to look at given your form factor.

http://20watts.blogspot.com/2012/08/minipc-avatar-apc-8750-wm8750.html

There is also a pad with an 8750 in it as well I saw reviewed, though I 
doubt you need that.  I'm not sure it would have the go power, but it 
might be better than the RPI for some things.

Jim






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