On 11/26/2013 07:53 PM, Adam DeConinck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > >> Has anyone tried or is working on setting up a cluster using raspberri >> pi's or similar types of hardware? > > This has been done a bunch of times, and seems to be an increasingly > popular way to learn about HPC clusters. I think they're probably > best-used for educational purposes, as you have to stack a fair number > of Raspberry Pi's together to compare to even one Intel chip... though I > am aware of one grad student who used such a cluster to do his thesis > research. > > I put together a very small RPi cluster (5 nodes) and found it to be a > lot of fun, if not much practical use. (See [0] for my blog post about > my toy cluster, which also links to a few other larger RPi systems.) > > SDSC also had a 12-node cluster at SC13, running a display wall where > they had a Tron Lightcycles tournament going. Very fun if you got to > check it out. :) > > [0] > http://blog.ajdecon.org/building-tiny-compute-clusters-for-fun-and-learning/ > > Cheers, > Adam > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Darwin) > > iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJSlUJtAAoJEGqxms5cZfz0O9IIAKCgBvLYEd6bf1wRJk+WZloA > RBCpDRsD/VetLhEY7QshVRXOUQXl3VrwNRgGVV4lAHpI6WRAlt9mBqiiTFOZljQB > yO1yqd0kZn/BA/7me+PYcdmYXw7fOmtXAHENcH7WO/ACOtxDvOQ0gL2rN/FsbvUr > szax/pRpAUK58U8jp4u4ZacdPuAwWlEZVXcCQCjzHKQ5CtcpzLJO/7gl7ne7kfNl > 5y5Z7gpXtGNJSxxhc3bJcOlpdTqsUAcFr7LkyZ2X+QqKi10UmFn+HobB0zHFIoG2 > plbtgAdC54bv445KywjiQoLeEZ/WK0AjQET53C7fGbTYIEUD2e67iVQvIL8Lujc= > =2okQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Yea, I've seen it done a few times as well. I recall at least one builder of such a system said one of the biggest problems is the cabling. The Pi is very small so the cable mass with a bunch of them all together is an issue. Jeff White - GNU+Linux Systems Administrator University of Pittsburgh - CSSD _______________________________________________ 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
