[Beowulf] Brian Guarraci (engineer at Twitter) is building a Parallella cluster in his spare time

[Andrew Holway]

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> Yes.. not everything has to be nuts and bolts.. Sticky tape and Velcro.
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In the UK, we call this "Blue Peter Engineering".


Jim Lux
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> From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Eugen
> Leitl
> Sent: 2014-Jun-03 8:27 AM
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: [Beowulf] Brian Guarraci (engineer at Twitter) is building a
> Parallella cluster in his spare time
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> http://www.parallella.org/2014/06/03/my-name-is-brian-and-i-build-supercomputers-in-my-spare-time/
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> Brian Guarraci is a software engineer at Twitter and in his spare time
> he’s building a Parallella cluster with a design that was inspired by two
> of the most iconic supercomputers ever made.
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> When we saw pictures of Brian’s cluster we were impressed and when we
> shared these with the community, it became apparent that we were not the
> only ones! It didn’t take long before curiosity got the better of me and I
> decided to get in touch with Brian to find out more…
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> Hi Brian, can you tell me about the Parallella cluster you are building.
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> I’m building a low-power general purpose compute cluster. I want it to be
> able to take advantage of standard distributed system packages so that
> there’s a familiar developer model. The Parallella boards are great for
> computation but since they have relatively limited storage and memory, I
> added two Intel NUCs. Each NUC has 1x Intel i3, 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD,
> 802.11ac WiFi and are also pretty low-power. The NUCs run Ubuntu server and
> are storage hosts and the primary interface to the external world. The
> system has 8x Parallella boards and a shared gigabit Ethernet switch,
> giving a peak performance of around 208 GFLOPs.
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