[Beowulf] Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

[Connie Sieh]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:

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>> When you are trying to educate people about cluster computing, the most
>> important thing is conveying the difficulties (both performance and
>> infrastructure related) working at scale -- not simply showing off that
>> the thing is "faster."
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> Precisely this..
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> The Arduino might be a bit too small.. (you'd spend time fighting things
> like the 1Kbyte of RAM to do anything useful in terms of routing tables,
> etc.)
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> But the important stuff, to me, is the managing the hardware issues.
> Nothing beats sitting there with 100+ cables in a big ball in front of you
> to appreciate that a 1024 unit cluster is a BIG chore.
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> Too bad that Allied (a US distributor of Raspberry Pi) shows "zero" in
> stock and 18 week delivery; I just got a few hundred bucks as a bonus
> award, and was all ready to pull the trigger on 10 units..
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Newark has 100 in stock according to their order page.

http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/raspberry-pi-model-b-board-only/dp/83T1943?isRedirect=true

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