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Dell Latitude rack cluster
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# Why
Imagine a company that is periodicaly upgrading and replacing laptops. The old ones are still fully functional and with decent performance (i5 4th gen, 8 Gb RAM, SSD), but there is no legal process to give them away or sell to employees. So you can either scrap them or figure out what can you do with all that computational power laying around.
Thus, the idea was born. Lets dedicate an empty networking rack and build a computational cluster out of them.
# Design
The general idea had to comply with following constraints:
- thermal design - hot air must be flowing correctly within the cabinet
- fit on a standard 19'' rack shelf - no additional construction, mounts, support, assembly
- hot swap - blade design allowing to take a laptop out without disassembling the whole unit
- half-depth rack - only one block per shelf. Two blocks on one shelf in full depth rack would have thermal/hot air distribution issues
# The models
The overall shelf is split into three parts
Imagine a company that is periodicaly upgrading and replacing laptops. The old ones are still fully functional and with decent performance (i5 4th gen, 8 Gb RAM, SSD), but there is no legal process to give them away or sell to employees. So you can either scrap them or figure out what can you do with all that computational power laying around.
Thus, the idea was born. Lets dedicate an empty networking rack and build a computational cluster out of them.
# Design
The general idea had to comply with following constraints:
- thermal design - hot air must be flowing correctly within the cabinet
- fit on a standard 19'' rack shelf - no additional construction, mounts, support, assembly
- hot swap - blade design allowing to take a laptop out without disassembling the whole unit
- half-depth rack - only one block per shelf. Two blocks on one shelf in full depth rack would have thermal/hot air distribution issues
# The models
The overall shelf is split into three parts
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