<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Cool project! </div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Build your own supercomputer out of Raspberry Pi boards</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier,
monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Summary: Who says you need a few million bucks to build a supercomputer? Joshua Kiepert put together a Linux-powered Beowulf cluster with Raspberry Pi computers for less than $2,000. </font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-raspberry-pi-boards-7000015831/">http://www.zdnet.com/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-raspberry-pi-boards-7000015831/</a><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Creator's white paper: Creating a Raspberry Pi-Based Beowulf Cluster, (PDF Link)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font><a href="http://coen.boisestate.edu/ece/files/2013/05/Creating.a.Raspberry.Pi-Based.Beowulf.Cluster_v2.pdf">http://coen.boisestate.edu/ece/files/2013/05/Creating.a.Raspberry.Pi-Based.Beowulf.Cluster_v2.pdf</a></font><br></div><div
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">So instead of 32 nodes, you build an 8 node system for ~$400. Well within the home brew computer budget. </div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>