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Raspberry Pi 2 - Planning to build a 512-node Supercomputer

volly
volly over 10 years ago

Hi Everyone. I would like to embark on a collective project to build a 512-node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer using the latest Raspberry Pi 2.

I am currently putting a local team of High School pupils and Pi enthusiasts/hobbyists to take part in the form of a build night.

 

We have the basic idea of what it is that we would like to do, but any contribution in any form whatsoever will be appreciated.

 

This is what we already have thus far:

  1. 17 x 48-port Gigabit Switches
  2. All the ethernet Fly leads and associated link cables
  3. 122 Raspberry Pi 2........ and counting
  4. All the Custom built Housing Boxes for the nodes - Perspex - with Fans
  5. 11 x 500Watt PSU's

To be built in a hosted Workshop 300 square metres. Well powered and equipped with auxiliary backup.

 

We are based in Cape Town, South Africa.

 

Open to the floor.

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  • gadget.iom
    gadget.iom over 10 years ago +1 suggested
    Yunus Vollenhoven wrote: 122 Raspberry Pi 2........ and counting So that's why the RPi 2 is out of stock! RASPBERRYPI-2-MODB-1GB - RASPBERRY-PI - SBC, RASPBERRY PI 2, MODEL B, 1GB RAM | Farnell…
  • gadget.iom
    0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago

    Yunus Vollenhoven wrote:

     

    1. 122 Raspberry Pi 2........ and counting

     

    So that's why the RPi 2 is out of stock!

    RASPBERRYPI-2-MODB-1GB - RASPBERRY-PI - SBC, RASPBERRY PI 2, MODEL B, 1GB RAM | Farnell element14

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  • volly
    0 volly over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

    Yep....sorry....hopefully not for too long though...delivery of next batch is imminent.....can hardly wait....

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  • gadget.iom
    0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to volly

    Give me a heads-up before you click "checkout" image

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  • clem57
    0 clem57 over 10 years ago

    What software are you going to use to connect them?

    Clem

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  • johnbeetem
    0 johnbeetem over 10 years ago

    Are you planning on using the VideoCore IV GPUs as compute engines?  They give you 24 GFLOPS per RasPi 1 (maybe more for RasPi 2), and you get to experiment with real SIMD supercomputing image

     

    http://www.element14.com/community/thread/31944/l/broadcom-releasing-videocore-iv-gpu-documentation

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