<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>NICE!! I've always wanted to do clustering at home, but figured that it would be cost-prohibitive. I'm going to look into this - and if I feel like it's do-able, I'm going to be on this like a Rottweiler on a ribeye...<br><br>Thanks for the pointers Mark!<br><br>T.<br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Mark G. Harvey" <markgharvey@yahoo.com><br><b>To: </b>"CLUEmessage CLUE" <clue@cluedenver.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:58:05 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[clue] RPi cluster<br><br><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/" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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><br>_______________________________________________<br>clue mailing list: clue@cluedenver.org<br>For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</div></body></html>