University of Glasgow Create Raspberry Pi Cloud

13 Jun 2013

Lego and Raspberry Pi have come together again. First there was the University of Southampton and now this fantastic project by the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science. Using 56 Raspberry Pi boards, their team have managed to create an affordable, working cloud computing infrastructure which is available to researchers and students of the faculty.

They have documented their adventures on a blog which contains images of the various incarnations of their project through to the current stage. http://raspberrypicloud.wordpress.com/blog/

jaytech101 over 12 years ago

wow that's a crazy amount of pi. I like it.
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Former Member over 12 years ago

Stuart,
First there was the University of Southampton and now this fantastic project by the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science.

I think there is a tendency for readers to jump to the conclusion when the word "fantastic"
is used to describe such a project, especially in connection with the words "affordable",
"working", "available", that the project is more than just a publicity stunt and might have
some practical value.

However, when you read the project's blog, you see that instead of words like "fantastic",
they themselves use words like "really appalling".

"I hear that hadoop is incredibly slow on pi from various blog posts, and yes pls lower your hope as the speed is really appalling. But it is very interesting to see how slow it can be on the pi."
http://raspberrypicloud.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/running-hadoop-java-and-c-word-count-example-on-raspberry-pi/
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