I just got my Raspberrypi a couple days ago but have yet to play with it. +Keith Cramer has his running trying to build a media station for his TV. Hey bro, I think we got some catching up to do!!! 😉
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Engineers build #RaspberryPi supercomputer #Linux
This is really great news
Computational Engineers at the University of Southampton have built a supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego.
The team, led by Professor Simon Cox, consisted of Richard Boardman, Andy Everett, Steven Johnston, Gereon Kaiping, Neil O'Brien, Mark Scott and Oz Parchment, along with Professor Cox's son James Cox (aged 6) who provided specialist support on Lego and system testing.
Professor Cox comments: "As soon as we were able to source sufficient Raspberry Pi computers we wanted to see if it was possible to link them together into a supercomputer. We installed and built all of the necessary software on the Pi starting from a standard Debian Wheezy system image and we have published a guide so you can build your own supercomputer."
The racking was built using Lego with a design developed by Simon and James, who has also been testing the Raspberry Pi by programming it using free computer programming software Python and Scratch over the summer. The machine, named "Iridis-Pi" after the University's Iridis supercomputer, runs off a single 13 Amp mains socket and uses MPI (Message Passing Interface) to communicate between nodes using Ethernet. The whole system cost under £2,500 (excluding switches) and has a total of 64 processors and 1Tb of memory (16Gb SD cards for each Raspberry Pi). Professor Cox uses the free plug-in 'Python Tools for Visual Studio' to develop code for the Raspberry Pi.
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-raspberry-pi-supercomputer.html
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I remember someone elsewhere on G+ posting that the Pi isn't quite fast enough to handle 1080p 60Hz video… Just a thought.
That aside, I really want one of these, but my funds are otherwise allocated already 🙁
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Keith's initial complaint was that it was SUPER slow when he tried to browse. I am not sure what he's tested with video. +Keith Cramer
The amusing thing about this was that "Lego" was the internal codename for the first generation of SGI's modular supercomputers.
Trivial Pursuit for geeks FTW 😉
I got it to play some video from my terabyte external HD. Played nicely but I couldn't control the video. It wasn't 1080p though.
I'm going to try to install the Xbox media center when I get a couple extra mins. Supposedly it works pretty well on the pi.
I found the post that I was thinking about (Google is good at finding things – go figure!)
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108191112950724576986/posts/9vPC4jAxYwc
+Roger Murley Great thread! Though now I'm super confused at what to install and try.
Nice thread. I installed OMXplayer. I'll dload an HD clip from somewhere later and see how it plays.
I have a big stack of Dell Optiplex GX260, GX270 and GX280 PCs that won't be returning to production. I have pondered building my own Beowulf cluster with them.
See +Rich Griffith this is what im talking about.
+Eric Coffman Did you see this? What's up? Why you not done yet?
lol. I don't have the funds to buy 62 of those babies. And, no lego shop nearby. 🙂
You don't have the funs for 62 NOW. But, if you buy one every pay day, by the end of the year, you would have an awesome little cluster going.