2012. szeptember 12., szerda

Linuxos szuperszámítógép: 64 RaspberryPi + LEGO :) Elképzelem a kisfiam, ahogy néhány év múlva legózik.


Linuxos szuperszámítógép: 64 RaspberryPi + LEGO :) Elképzelem a kisfiam, ahogy néhány év múlva legózik. Mit építesz kisfiam? Szuperszámítógépet, Apa ...

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Engineers build #RaspberryPi supercomputer  #Linux

This is really great news

Computational Engineers at the University of Southampton have built a supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego.

The team, led by Professor Simon Cox, consisted of Richard Boardman, Andy Everett, Steven Johnston, Gereon Kaiping, Neil O'Brien, Mark Scott and Oz Parchment, along with Professor Cox's son James Cox (aged 6) who provided specialist support on Lego and system testing.

Professor Cox comments: "As soon as we were able to source sufficient Raspberry Pi computers we wanted to see if it was possible to link them together into a supercomputer. We installed and built all of the necessary software on the Pi starting from a standard Debian Wheezy system image and we have published a guide so you can build your own supercomputer."

The racking was built using Lego with a design developed by Simon and James, who has also been testing the Raspberry Pi by programming it using free computer programming software Python and Scratch over the summer. The machine, named "Iridis-Pi" after the University's Iridis supercomputer, runs off a single 13 Amp mains socket and uses MPI (Message Passing Interface) to communicate between nodes using Ethernet. The whole system cost under £2,500 (excluding switches) and has a total of 64 processors and 1Tb of memory (16Gb SD cards for each Raspberry Pi). Professor Cox uses the free plug-in 'Python Tools for Visual Studio' to develop code for the Raspberry Pi.

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-raspberry-pi-supercomputer.html

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