[time-nuts] single board PCs

[gary]

This might be a good place to start looking.
> http://beagleboard.org/project/BeagleTick/

I got a beagleboard mx, but it is for a different project. I'm not up to 
speed on it enough to comment if this is the best solution. I can tell 
you the hardware design and more importantly the documentation of the 
hardware is very good..well compared to the competition. I passed up the 
pandaboard because I thought the hardware documentation was a bit skimpy.

FWIW, you can run opensuse on it.

It seems to me if you want to run matlab and labview, you will need a 
dual core atom at the very least. But that seems like it should be a 
different project.

Network control means different things to different people. If you want 
NETWORK CONTROL (as in I am shouting), you probably want IMPI. 
Supermicro makes a D525 board with IMPI, intended for low power servers.

> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/ich9/x7spe-hf-d525.cfm
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/X9/X9SBAA-F.cfm

I only know about IMPI second hand, but system administrators swear by 
it, as in saved their arse! Remote operation is always kind of dicey if 
the remote device isn't working well. With IMPI, you can actually mess 
with the bios. Supposedly it ls like really being there.


On 1/6/2013 4:25 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> Consulting the hive mind..
> If you're building a standalone widget (e.g. something like an NTP
> server we've been discussing,  etc.)  with an embedded PC, don't want to
> fool with hardware designing, etc.; use off the shelf OSes (win and
> Linux) and software (Matlab, Labview); have solid state boot/storage
> media.. No user interface needed (access is solely via network)...
>
> What's the hot ticket these days..
> One of the CarPC things (most are a miniITX/miniATX with a USB or SD
> "disk drive"). (This is what I used last time)
>
> Raspberry Pi is a possibility, but I don't know that it has the oomph to
> run things like Matlab: and I suspect it doesn't run Windows....
>
> I'd like something I can just order and give to the software guys to
> start coding on (they're using Matlab, Labview, and Python, in various
> combinations).  Eventually, it will  be packaged "inside the box" which
> is about 10x10x3" along with the GPS receiver and other measuremnet
> stuff (an FPGA with counters and the like). The FPGA will use USB for an
> interface (I think..)..
>
>
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