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Raspberry Pi Supercomputer!

LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
edited 2012-09-13 20:39 in General Discussion
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/features/raspberry_pi_supercomputer.shtml

I used to know some of the people there, when I was dabbling with transputers.

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  • Mark_TMark_T Posts: 1,981
    edited 2012-09-13 06:07
    My immediate thought was how on earth did they get hold of 64 RaspPi's?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2012-09-13 07:07
    They are a lot easier to get hold of, now.
  • CircuitsoftCircuitsoft Posts: 1,166
    edited 2012-09-13 09:58
    Why bother? RPi isn't that powerful. At ~875DMIPS/ea, 64 of them would be not quite half as powerful as an Intel Core i7-2600k.
  • rwgast_logicdesignrwgast_logicdesign Posts: 1,464
    edited 2012-09-13 10:10
    speaking of not hard to get now, adafruit is giving a free one away with a 350 purchase
  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2012-09-13 11:02
    Circuitsoft wrote: »
    Why bother? RPi isn't that powerful. At ~875DMIPS/ea, 64 of them would be not quite half as powerful as an Intel Core i7-2600k.

    That's not the point. Connecting lots of computers together like that is more interesting.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2012-09-13 11:18
    Leon wrote: »
    That's not the point. Connecting lots of computers together like that is more interesting.

    Then you can call it "The Big-PI-Brain" ....
  • RobotWorkshopRobotWorkshop Posts: 2,307
    edited 2012-09-13 11:25
    Leon wrote: »
    That's not the point. Connecting lots of computers together like that is more interesting.

    Leon makes a good point. That could be a cheap platform to experiment with coding applications that run on a lot of separate systems. I wonder when they will come out with a SETI client for it?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2012-09-13 13:18
    Some things just have to be done.

    Now if each one of those Pi nodes had an attached Propeller for I/O they might be on to something:)
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    edited 2012-09-13 20:39
    Leon, you've just explained why I want to put together a large array of cogs to feed an FPGA-based frame buffer, even though the FPGA could do the computations itself.
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