RPiCluster: Another Raspberry Pi Cluster, With Neat Tricks

New submitter TheJish writes "The RPiCluster is a 33-node Beowulf cluster built using Raspberry Pis (RPis). The RPiCluster is a little side project I worked on over the last couple months as part of my dissertation work at Boise State University. I had need of a cluster to run a distributed simulator I've been developing. The RPiCluster is the result. I've written an informal document on why I built the RPiCluster, how it was built, and how it performs as compared to other platforms. I also put together a YouTube video of it running an MPI parallel program I created to demo the RGB LEDs installed on each node as part of the build. While there have certainly been larger RPi clusters put together recently, I figured the Slashdot community might be interested in this build as I believe it is a novel approach to the rack mounting and power management of RPis."

Comments

Different concept: HA Clustering

[DF5JT]

http://blogs.linbit.com/p/406/raspberry-tau-cluster/

acronym for F.R.A.M. + Boise = red + sour

[girlinatrainingbra]

Haha. It would have been funny (or funnier) if this guy had come up with the acronym FRAM for this project and then called the page (or overall project) FRAM-Boise , perhaps: Facilitated
Raspberry.Pi
Architectural
Messaging

since he says in his pdf document that " My research is currently focused on developing a novel da ta sharing system for wireless sensor networks to facilitate in-network collaborative processing of sensor data. In the process of developing this system it became clear that perhaps the most expedient way to test many of the ideas was to create a distributed simulation rather than developing directly on the final target embedded hardware."

welcome to the home of jealous haters

[decora]

i wish i had done this, therefore you suck.