"Supercomputer" of 64 Raspberry Pi and Lego
The Raspberry Pi single-board cheap mini-computer has already been used everywhere - now researchers at Southampton University, led by Professor Simon Cox, have reached the point of building a supercomputer from Raspberry using the well-known Lego children's designer.
Professor Cox ordered a 64 mini-computer for a scientific experiment and, apparently, not one set of Lego. Each Raspberry was equipped with a 16 GB SD card and was installed in a “rack”, for the manufacture of which the designer was used.
Each "supercomputer core" looked as follows:
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Further, applying the knowledge and skills of his six-year-old son James, Professor Cox got a nice stand from Lego,
where each Raspberry was installed, thus obtaining the total disk space of the resulting “cluster” of 1 TB. All boards were combined into a local Ethernet network.
That cluster is the same, but from a slightly different angle and closer:
Professor Cox was not lazy and gave detailed instructions. to deploy their “supercomputer” from the “two cores” using one of the Linux images available on the official Raspberry website (and the professor himself used Raspbian “wheezy”), which can be found here . The manual itself can serve as a detailed "how-to" when working with Raspberri Pi.
The total cost of the solution described was ÂŁ 2,500 (about $ 4,030).
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Professor Cox ordered a 64 mini-computer for a scientific experiment and, apparently, not one set of Lego. Each Raspberry was equipped with a 16 GB SD card and was installed in a “rack”, for the manufacture of which the designer was used.
Each "supercomputer core" looked as follows:
')
Further, applying the knowledge and skills of his six-year-old son James, Professor Cox got a nice stand from Lego,
where each Raspberry was installed, thus obtaining the total disk space of the resulting “cluster” of 1 TB. All boards were combined into a local Ethernet network.
That cluster is the same, but from a slightly different angle and closer:
Professor Cox was not lazy and gave detailed instructions. to deploy their “supercomputer” from the “two cores” using one of the Linux images available on the official Raspberry website (and the professor himself used Raspbian “wheezy”), which can be found here . The manual itself can serve as a detailed "how-to" when working with Raspberri Pi.
The total cost of the solution described was ÂŁ 2,500 (about $ 4,030).
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/151445/
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