What is the cheapest way of connecting 15 cpu's to one monitor?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Fri Oct 20 10:01:35 EDT 2000


Almost all off the shelf PCs require a keyboard to boot. This is embedded 
into the BIOS. Once each system is booted, you can disconnect the 
keyboard. 

On 20 Oct 2000, at 9:52, Frank Ramsay wrote:

> Kevin,
>   I have worked on massivily parallel computers in the past (IBM SP-2's
> to be exact) They way IBM handles this is the nodes of the system
> are headless, with all administration taking place via rsh sessions.  
> I'd suggest that unless you really _need_ a monitor/keyboard/mouse on 
> each machine, to just designate one machine as the admin node and 
> make the others headless.

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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