I thought stupid large messes of cables were teh point of having a rack! :lol:
BrickOven2™ is meant for playing with each level independently over KVM. Having LC, LCII, LCIII, and three LC475/Q605 layers to make up the six CPU PDS Expansion Card PlayStation, so it needs KVM.
The original BrickOven™ was a six level 68040 hack looking for an application. It was a design exercise intended to hoover up some of the large excess of MicroQuadra™ boards in Aus.
The RackOven™ is just a day old design exercise. It's more feasible to run 1 to 6 bricks of four Q630 nodes each in a TelCo Rack than to build even one BrickOven™ if you really think about it. As far as CDs go, only one person mentioned using a single one for the array. I think using the CD Bay in each of the 6xx boxen for an adapted, fast access U160 or SCA Drive makes the most sense. No need for NetBooting or startup floppies and plenty of space for VM/scratch disk/whatever.
I'm not a UNIX geek or Network admin of any sort, I HATE networking, but KVMs and SneakerNet I've got down pat.
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