[ale] R Pi supercomputer?

[Jim Kinney]

+1!!!!!

It's really amazing that a 10 year old has access to the ability to build a
clustered system that won't bankrupt small countries. High performance?
Nope. But the principles are still the same.

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com>wrote:

> Alan, it's not about building the fastest, most energy/cost efficient
> supercomputer. It's the fact that the experience it's now attainable for
> schools, or even members of this group who have never been employed in
> tech. We get questions all the time from people asking how they can get the
> experience to get that first job. Now instead of suggesting they network a
> few 386 machines together, it's reasonable to suggest they build a
> supercomputer. What an exciting time to be alive!
> On Feb 1, 2013 7:53 AM, "alan at alanlee.org" <alan at alanlee.org> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>>
>> Not sure I'd call 64 connected Pi's a 'super-computer'.  Especially when
>> a OMAP5432 is >16x faster than a Pi at only ~2x the board area.  And boards
>> like the Adapteva Parallella are orders of magnitude faster than that,
>> smaller, and lower power.  Even a single high end gaming i7 has orders of
>> magnitude more computing power than the entire 64 node Pi cluster - and
>> cheaper too!
>>
>>
>>
>> Props for cool factor though.  But it's mostly because of the legos!
>>
>>
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>>
>> On February 1, 2013 at 7:04 AM Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Short http://bit.ly/W6xkTs
>> >
>> > Long
>> >
>> http://www.element14.com/community/people/cortmeyer/blog/2013/01/30/my-attempt-at-building-a-raspberry-pi-supercomputer?et_cid=22268265&et_rid=3594481&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.element14.com%2fcommunity%2fpeople%2fcortmeyer%2fblog%2f2013%2f01%2f30%2fmy-attempt-at-building-a-raspberry-pi-supercomputer&CMP=EMC-22268265
>> >
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