[ale] Cluster software for Raspberry Pi?

[Boris Borisov]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-raspberry-pi-boards/

That's what come to my mind.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff at mail.clayton.edu>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 06:55:43PM -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
> > I'm starting on my Raspberry Pi cluster project. Just for fun, no
> business
> > need.
> >
> > I'm building a four-node cluster but I am unsure of what cluster
> software I
> > should use.  I will have NFS storage for a quorum if needed.
>
> We have a couple of Mathematics Professors at Clayton State that are doing
> parallel numerical computation using a Pi cluster. IIRC they are using
> Python and MPI. A tutorial on how to install and use can be found here:
>
>
> http://thenewstack.io/installing-mpi-python-raspberry-pi-cluster-runs-docker/
>
> >
> > NICs... Would I need a USB NIC for the cluster communication?
>
> For 4 nodes, probably not. A small switching router should be able to
> handle 4-8 wired connections.
>
> Much bigger than that, then the bigger problems are wiring power and
> communications.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> BAJ
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Raj Wurttemberg
> >
> >
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