[mdlug] rasp. pi cluster?

[Jonathan Billings]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 09:20:59AM -0400, Dean Durant wrote:
>
> Hello, is there any chance there are enough people who want to build
> a raspberry pi cluster? Would it be useful to anyone? This guy did
> it:  
> http://coen.boisestate.edu/ece/files/2013/05/Creating.a.Raspberry.Pi-Based.Beowulf.Cluster_v2.pdf  
> If 32 people each put up $64 (or vice-versa), it's enough money for
> the material. I have the money for the whole thing, but I couldn't
> build it on my own. If I was going to put up the money, I would want
> to rent time on it. Anyone who helped build it could make money, the
> club could get some of the money. I would just like it to pay for
> itself.  

What kind of computing jobs would you run on a Rasberry Pi cluster?
It has a rather slow interconnect (via the USB bus) so it wouldn't be
a particularly useful cluster for jobs requiring nodes to send a lot
of data between nodes or to a central storage.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>