Odroid C2 cluster - What to do with it?

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Hi folks, I am a fan of single board computers.

I have a small cluster of five Odroid-C2 boards that I use as a distributed computing platform for ECM (Elliptic Curve Method) factorization.

Now, I think that time has come for a new project, and here I am: What project could I develop with such cluster? I know there are infinite options: from Kubernetes to Dockers, from Hadoop to number theory, just to name some of them...

But if YOU had a 5-board cluster, what did you do?

Luigi

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clem57 · Answer

Hi luigimorelli , here is a blog to get you going: Pi IoT - Star Trek IoT Alcove - Blog 1

luigimorelli · Answer

From Wikipedia : "The Lenstra elliptic-curve factorization or the elliptic-curve factorization method ( ECM ) is a fast, sub-exponential running time, algorithm for integer factorization, which employs elliptic curves. For general-purpose factoring, ECM is the third-fastest known factoring method. The second-fastest is the multiple polynomial quadratic sieve, and the fastest is the general number field sieve. The Lenstra elliptic-curve factorization is named after Hendrik Lenstra." I use the Loria implementation of ECMNET , a project that distributes the search along many different computers. As the name states, the algorithm runs "tests" over elliptic curves to find a particolar configuration, whose meaning resembles the work of trial-factoring. Each clien runs GMP-ECM a program that executes the factorization tests. GMP-ECM has versions for INTEL/AMD processors, ARM archtiectures and CUDA parallel systems. The Elliptic Curve Method is seen as a generalization of the P-1 algorithm , an extension of the Pollard Rho method (here is an implementation for CUDA systems). I have been interested in computational number theory since my purchase of a Commodore C64 (my first program was the calculation of Armstrong numbers: the progam written in BASIC took 3 days to complete). Now I explain algorithms, implementations and other projects related to SBC on my blog . Here is the Math archive . Luigi ---

mudz · Answer

Can you make a Cookie robot out o it? Ummm... Home security or automation? with multiple cameras?

clem57 · Answer

Run Seti@home... Maybe find alien signals.

luigimorelli · Answer

I already completed section 1, and published my results on my blog.

Cryptography would work better on Jetson Nano, with his 128 Nvidia parallel cores. ANd yes, I am buiding a small 3-Nanos cluster to do it.

The same works for ML, as the Jetson Nano already has parallel PyTorch systems installed.

I was looking for something "different", more distributed and less number-crunching intense.

Odroid C2 cluster - What to do with it?

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