Supercomputer Developed From 64 Raspberry Pi Computers & Lego By Southampton Engineers
Super things happen when engineers at work come up with ideas that can revolutionize the industry. If you are a Lego-fan like me, you will love to read what University of Southampton's computational engineers have created from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego pieces - a fully functioning supercomputer! By linking the the Rasp Pi computers together and building up the software from a standard Debian Wheezy system image, this team of engineers led by Professor Simon Cox, that includes 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, built a supercomputer named “Iridis-Pi†after the University’s Iridis supercomputer.
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Using Python and Scratch programming, they built the supercomputer's racking and ran it on 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). If you want to build a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer yourself check out their #-Link-Snipped-#. We look forward to amazing stuff from these guys.
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Using Python and Scratch programming, they built the supercomputer's racking and ran it on 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). If you want to build a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer yourself check out their #-Link-Snipped-#. We look forward to amazing stuff from these guys.
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