* [9fans] fun: jtag over ethernet
@ 2011-08-10 14:58 ron minnich
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From: ron minnich @ 2011-08-10 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
http://phys.columbia.edu/~cqft/qcdoc/qcdoc.htm
purpose-built QCD system.
what's fun is that the nodes have no firmware. To boot a node, you
send it jtag packets over ethernet.
What's a node do when it boots? Boot other nodes, of course. Quite scalable.
ron
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