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Title: Lego/Raspberry-pi 64-node Supercomputer
Post by: solutions on September 13, 2012, 04:04:14 04:04
Instructions on how to build up to 64 node supercomputer using R-p's and Lego blocks:

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomputer_southampton_web.pdf

Press writeup:

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-raspberry-pi-supercomputer.html


Title: Re: Lego/Raspberry-pi 64-node Supercomputer
Post by: Brosske on September 13, 2012, 02:49:28 14:49
wtf - that's why we had to wait so long to get just ONE piece.... they've bought them all...


Title: Re: Lego/Raspberry-pi 64-node Supercomputer
Post by: bigtoy on September 15, 2012, 05:30:10 05:30
I was looking at that thing today, and wondering if for the $4000 they spent, would they have gotten more performance simply by purchasing a high-end graphics card or 4 and programming it in CUDA?


Title: Re: Lego/Raspberry-pi 64-node Supercomputer
Post by: solutions on September 15, 2012, 05:54:10 05:54
...maybe, but it won't get you nerd girls