Thanks for the report back! The color-coding is a nifty idea. Skylar On 03/07/2016 08:44 AM, Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote: > First iteration of the mini-cluster is now in production. Some takeaways and > observations: > > We did the first deployment of the mini-cluster, called "Sisunen" last weekend > at the local science centre. We ended up developing the concept so that kids > could actually construct the cluster. We held 7 build sessions, each with 10 > participants, over 2 days. Each session took about 30min. This really made it > a > really tangible experience. Things went very smoothly, largely thanks to the > really good team of HPC specialists that ran the workshops. > > Here’s a video of the end product: > https://www.instagram.com/p/BCnGg0VI6q-A3ft1NjXe13uPhBxoS99WjcX3qM0/ > > > We ended up with following demos: > > SPH from Tiny Titan - This was probably the most popular demo. We amped up the > particle count by 10x compared to the Raspberry Pi version and got it working > nicely. > > PiBrot from Tiny Titan - Helped show the difference in parallel performance > between 1 and 10 nodes. Explaining fractals in simple enough terms was a bit > challenging though. > > Game of Life - One of our standard MPI training projects, spruced up for the > demos a bit. > > NAMD+VMD - It was nice to show a real world code (molecular dynamics). > Finding a > better input set might be useful. > > Blender 3D - We ran out of time with this a bit. Works but Still need to set > up > a nice scene to render with a good balance of amount of frames, wow-factor > and > render time. > > The codes will be made available here and hopefully we’ll release more in the > future: https://github.com/sisunen We also welcome all contributions, of > course > :) > > In the future it would be nice to get an interactive deep learning demo set > up. > Possibly neural style (https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style) and/or Deep > Dream (https://github.com/google/deepdream). If anyone is up for a nice ML > project for themselves or possibly some grad student then productising these > for > demo cluster use might not be a bad idea. :) > > Also the blink(1) USB LED indicators really helped illustrate how things were > parallelized by color-coding the different tasks and setting the LEDs to > correspond. Any demo code should ideally have support for these. > > O-P
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