From a performance standpoint we know building a homebrew Raspberry Pi cluster doesn’t make a lot of sense, as even a fairly run of the mill desktop x86 machine is sure to run circles around it. That said, there’s an argument to be made that rigging up a dozen little Linux boards gives you a …
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The NVIDIA® Jetson Xavier™ NX Developer Kit brings supercomputer performance to the edge. It includes a power-efficient, compact Jetson Xavier NX module for AI edge devices. It benefits from new cloud-native support and accelerates the NVIDIA software stack in as little as 10 W with more than 10X the performance of its widely adopted predecessor, …
You’ve probably heard it said that clustering a bunch of Raspberry Pis up to make a “supercomputer” doesn’t make much sense, as even a middle-of-the-road desktop could blow it away in terms of performance. While that may be true, the reason most people make Pi clusters isn’t for raw power, it’s so they can build …
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For years, Europeans have been browsing the central aisles of the German Aldi and Lidl supermarket chains, attracted by the surprising variety of transitory non-grocery bargains to be found there. There are plenty of temptations for hackers, and alongside the barbecues and Parkside tools at Lidl last year was a range of Zigbee home automation …
Many readers will have had their first taste of experimentation with cluster computing through the medium of the Raspberry Pi. The diminutive Linux capable boards can easily be hooked up as a group via a network hub, and given the right software become a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. None …
NASA is planning to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. But in order to get there it needs to simulate the mission. Now the agency has the supercomputer to do just that. Last week, NASA opened its new Modular Supercomputing Facility (MSF) at the Ames Research Center in California. The first …
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The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer built to process information in a similar manner to the natural brain function has finally gone live. The supercomputer is made up of 1,000,000 processor cores which the developers are planning on upgrading to 1,000,000,000 cores in the near future, making the supercomputer a little closer to the number of …
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Story The message passing interface standard has long since been a way to perform parallel computing within a cluster of machines. I was interested in doing this project because A) I wanted to learn MPI and B) I was curious about the possibilities of what I can do with a cluster of Raspberry Pis. If …
Raspberry Pi computers have been used to build a supercomputer as part of an educational project by computational engineers at the University of Southampton. The machine uses 64 Raspberry Pi compoter boards mounted in a rack built from Lego. The system has 1Tbit of memory (16Gbit SD cards for each Raspberry Pi). It is called “Iridis-Pi” after the University’s …
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