How small can we go?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Those of you who follow my @DoctorFortran Twitter feed have seen this already, but for the rest of you...  I have acquired five MinnowboardMAXes - small single-board computers with dual-core Atom processors and 2GB of RAM. My primary goal for these is to form a Linux cluster and demonstrate coarrays on them, but I took one of them and loaded Windows 10 and Visual Fortran on it. Works fine, if not the speediest thing in the world. It doesn't help that the "system disk" is a 32GB MicroSD card.

[jimdempseyatthecove]

Cool, now all you have to do is to figure out how to attach your Xeon Phi to its PCIe Gen 2.0 lane....

Keep us posted on your cluster

Jim Dempsey

[Les_Neilson]

Is this project giving you sleepless nights Steve?

(Note the time in the bottom right corner of the screen.)

Les

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I was wondering if someone would notice that. You might also notice that the date is a couple of weeks off. For some odd reason, the Windows Time service didn't start so it couldn't do an NTP time sync. I didn't spot this until after I took the picture. I manually started the service and then it was ok. Note that the board doesn't include a battery TOY clock.

As for Xeon Phi, that wasn't on my list. The board has a 1x PCIe 2,0 signal, probably not enough to feed a Xeon Phi card.

[andrew_4619]

Those look really cool playthings, I can see all manner of uses! I had a look to see the cost which is reasonable but it is 20+ weeks delivery at the moment. Maybe a project for next year. 

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Ignore the delivery prediction - they come in 2-3 weeks, if not less. Darned if I know why Mouser says 26 weeks - probably because they don't keep stock and have to order from CircuitCo.

[jimdempseyatthecove]

Or maybe a missing hyphen (2-6)

Jim