[ale] R Pi supercomputer?

[Reggie Euser]

Had never heard of Raspberry Pi until last weekend at Asheville BeerFest.  Struck up a conversation with a guy from Tampa who told me he's using Raspberry Pi to automate his homebrew setup, controlling temperatures, pumps, flow rates etc. Damfino how, but that's what he said.

Any other such applications anyone's run across?


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Kinney 
  To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts 
  Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 9:43 AM
  Subject: Re: [ale] R Pi supercomputer?


  +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



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      > Short http://bit.ly/W6xkTs 
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      > 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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