Supercomputer comprising 32 Raspberry Pis!

[Phil]

> Here's a forwarded message from a friend of mine.
> 
> Phil M1GWZ
> 
> 
>> I encountered a fascinating article about an American guy doing a PhD which used a 32 node supercomputer. However, the supercomputer was under the jurisdiction of the Computing Dept. so anything the guy wanted to add had to be done by an administrator. Plus, if the thing went down, the guy's PhD was put on hold. So he did the 'obvious' thing - built himself a supercomputer - for less than $2000 using 32 Raspberry Pis! And I'm not taking the pis! If you want to read the full article, it's at:
>> http://www.zdnet.com/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-raspberry-pi-boards-7000015831/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539
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>> I quote the final paragraph of the article here:
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>> Kiepert ran the High Performance Linpack (HPL), the standard supercomputer benchmark on his home-made computer and found that his RPiCluster with its 32 Broadcom BCM2708 ARM11 processors running at 1GHz and 14.6GB of usable RAM turned in an HPL peak performance of 10.13 GFLOPS. That's not going to get this cluster into the TOP500 supercomputer list, but as Kiepert observed, "the first Cray-2 supercomputer in 1985 did 1.9 GFLOPS. How times have changed!"
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>> Just in case you can't access it, I've attached the photo of the machine he built.
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