-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/09/12 23:55, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/features/raspberry_pi_supercomputer.shtml > > Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer There's another nice article about it here: http://paritynews.com/hardware/item/302-engineers-build-supercomputer-using-raspberry-pi-lego # According to Professor Cox, as of now the team hasn't gone ahead # with "any systematic testing on the whole 64 processor system". # Professor Cox is of the opinion that "the processor is probably # not the place to get performance from on the Pi". According to the RasPi FAQ: "The GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24 GFLOPs of general purpose compute" - no idea if that's single or double precision.. ;-) # Iterating the point made earlier that the team was looking to harness # the capabilities of such a marginally priced computer and wants the # supercomputer become an inspiration for students, the professor said, # "we were interested in how the price to get a system together has # gone from 1,000,000s to 100,000s, to 10,000s and now down to 1000s # of dollars/ pounds and that with Raspberry Pi you can really show # (non virtualized) parallel programming in the raw at the 1000s dollar # price point." Which illustrates Ellis's point precisely.. cheers, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBRjwAACgkQO2KABBYQAh/V+QCeI4DV7sRgbas3I1o7ccGqyYSp g1sAn2Se8dqut6wAxiJKC12vTWBJQEi8 =3r2Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
