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

[kgleason at ma.ultranet.com (Kevin M. Gleason)]

Thanks for the suggestion but as you know in academia the 'thought' of the
budget is usually larger than the fact. I'm really talking shoestring here
(almost velcro). So much so that I'm even considering a fast connection option
instead of a switch...stacking all computers for the bootstrap then connecting
then disconnecting each monitor and moving on to the next machine. Does that
tell you how CHEAP is cheap? When I say cheap I really mean 'free or close to
free'.

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Kevin

"Matthew J. Brodeur" wrote:

>    If you're really concerned with cost, then the "best" solution is
> probably out of the question, but I'll mention it anyway.
>
>    A company called Aten (www.aten-usa.com) makes a whole line of really
> nice KVM hardware, in addition to all kinds of other fun toys. If I'm not
> mistaken, this is the company that actually makes IOGear's MiniView series
> switches. We have several of these in our test lab aove them.
>    All of their switches provide device emulation, so every machine thinks
> it has console hardware at all times. They're also hot-pluggable,
> switchable from the keyboard, and the high end ones have on-screen
> display. The MasterView series can also be daisy-chained up to 512 ports.
>
>    The bad news is the price. For your situation the MasterView Pro
> CS-1016 is perfect, but it lists for $1495 plus $39/ea for the 16 cables
> you'd need. If you look at PCNation, the whole package would be $1382+SH.
>
>    If money was no object, this is the solution I'd go with.
>
> --
>      -Matt
>
> No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
>                 -- Eleanor Roosevelt
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just got the college to loan me 16 Compaq P100's to build a (alright
> > slow) Beowulf cluster and I have a bunch of mouses, monitors, and
> > keyboards that I don't think I need. Is there a switch that I can buy
> > that will reduce all of this hardware to quantity ONE? If so, get where
> > and how much should I budget?
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kevin
> >
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