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Other => Found it on the Webs => : Killeramor January 23, 2015, 08:06:53 PM
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So I was reading around and found how a college created a super computer out of 64 raspberry pi's. Seemed cool and interesting.
There finished product costed them around $3,000 US.
Heres a link to the how to:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomputer_southampton_web.pdf
Heres a link to the report:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/raspberry_pi_iridis_lego_supercomputer_paper_cox_Jun2013.pdf
Now I have a question for you.
What would you do with a affordable super computer?
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I was wondering about about a bunch of PIs running in tandem a few days ago. It was basically bf4-pi-how many pis would it take to run bf4?
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You wouldn't want to buy this is you were after raw computational power (a single PI offers ~1 gigaflop of single digit) but you would buy this/build this if for some reason you needed a massively parallel solution. (Think Math problems) or you wanted to practice distributed computing. (Probably why a uni built it, I havent read the article)
I'm still waiting for parallela to become more affordable or release their 64 core version. Or for Jetson tk1 to stop sucking so much dick. I want moar possible threads and an updated warp scheduler on that before i buy any.
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Tinkernut on youtube covers this really well.