[Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:17:23AM +0000, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
> I agree with you..
> But proving that you can build a HPC using whatever, be it PS/3s or Furbys or nVidia cards, if you can't find people to program it, that's a problem.
> 
> (As someone who proposed building a cluster with Arduinos, I recognize that I am eating my own dogfood now...  But I DO happen to have 5 Arduino Uno Ethernets here in my desk drawer, and I have a 5 port hub/switch as well.  The switch claims 1 Gbps, so I probably won't have to worry about saturating its bisection bandwidth. Or constructing some sort of toroidal fabric.  Funny, I don't see an implementation of MPIduino anywhere though.)

I'm still gunning for a 8-node Parallella cluster.

http://www.adapteva.com/white-papers/building-the-worlds-first-parallella-beowulf-cluster/