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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I want to know who has a complete, headless, 4 core or better,
USB Linux computer stick? If the industry isn't there yet, what's the closest to that "ideal"? 4-24 port USB hubs are available. A new USB standard will, Soon, be supplying power through new USB connectors using separate power and data pins. So, all one should have to do is get a shoebox full of said USB Linux computer sticks, some 24 port USB hubs, and have a very compact, energy efficient, affordable, WCG USB Linux "stick" cluster as is now done with Linux "blade" servers. |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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until it arrives u can always use:
----------------------------------------- multi HDMI port - with HDMI compute sticks so it's a 0,5W (5V * 100mA) per HDMI port...but compute stick will not work without additional 2W charger!  Lenovo: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/63016/20150...stick-turns-screen-pc.htm intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-compute-stick.html head 2 head: http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/components-per...s-intel-compute-stick.htm HDMI stick would give u around 1,33GFLOPs per unit...so around 0,33GFLOPs per core (yes, it has 4 cores)...though, using about 1W per core is very efficient! laptops use 60-90W...& desktops use about 100-150W, without GPUs... so it is efficient...but it costs $129 or $150 per device! d point is - what is ur return of investment?! |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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until it arrives u can always use: - multi HDMI port - with HDMI compute sticks so it's a 0,5W (5V * 100mA) per HDMI port...but compute stick will not work without additional 2W charger! Lenovo: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/63016/20150...stick-turns-screen-pc.htm intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-compute-stick.html head 2 head: http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/components-per...s-intel-compute-stick.htm HDMI stick would give u around 1,33GFLOPs per unit...so around 0,33GFLOPs per core (yes, it has 4 cores)...though, using about 1W per core is very efficient! laptops use 60-90W...& desktops use about 100-150W, without GPUs... so it is efficient...but it costs $129 or $150 per device! d point is - what is ur return of investment?! Depends on the laptop. My A8-4500M uses 38 watts at 100% CPU load.  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Depends on the laptop. My A8-4500M uses 38 watts at 100% CPU load. yeah, but that's slower than intel counterpart: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-3612QM-vs-AMD-A8-4500M & much more slower than desktop/server versions! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
"compute sticks". Ok. Another industry is born.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
"...but compute stick will not work without additional 2W charger!"
----------------------------------------Everything needed is here: http://plugable.com/products They are on Amazon, too. Those folks were the first to tell me about "USB-C". They have just started introducing USB-C products. They also have free files for printing hub racks! http://plugable.com/2015/07/30/adventures-in-stackability-and-modularity [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 17, 2015 5:09:51 AM] |
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Still Alive
Advanced Cruncher Germany Joined: May 27, 2013 Post Count: 69 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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A quick question :
----------------------------------------Can you leave the stick in 24/7 mode to run?  Without it breaks. Thanks for the answer.  AMD 3900X - 21 Threads @ 4,00 GHz - 24/7 Samsung Xcover4 - 4 Threads @ 1.43 Ghz - 24/7 |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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you can leave them to work 24/7...but will they?! :D
----------------------------------------also, keep in mind that those fans do get very noisy: http://gizmodo.com/intel-compute-stick-review-don-t-buy-it-1699377058 |
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