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Uses for a Raspberry Pi supercomputer

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Hey, this is my first post to Element14!

I came here from The Ben Heck Show, so naturally, like other semi-geeks, I decided to embark on a bunch of Raspberry Pi projects.

 

One of these projects is actually inspired from various other sources, and that's to build a small Beowulf Cluster out of Raspberry Pis. I'll start with a 16 node and upgrade to 32 afterwards.

The reasoning? Nothing more than to tinker and cross "Make a supercomputer" off of the bucket list. I am happy to spend that money and literally have it sat at home looking good until I can finally get a use out of it.

 

My question: As a general computer user and keen video editor, are there any uses I could get from the supercomputer? What could someone like me actually use this for? How would I go about doing so?

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  • I have made a Pi cluster, it was a great learning experament but kind of useless. I finally took it apart and used the Pi's as other projects. The cost compared to what you get for an end result isn't worth the money, the experience is. I created a 5 node cluster which cost around $300, for a 16 node it will be around $1000. For just a bucket list check I would do a smaller one as once the master Pi is programmed any slaves can be added by cloning the SD card of the first slave. So 1 slave or 100, it isn't much harder. If you want something that looks real cool and will keep for show, it would be worth it.

     

    Dale

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  • I have made a Pi cluster, it was a great learning experament but kind of useless. I finally took it apart and used the Pi's as other projects. The cost compared to what you get for an end result isn't worth the money, the experience is. I created a 5 node cluster which cost around $300, for a 16 node it will be around $1000. For just a bucket list check I would do a smaller one as once the master Pi is programmed any slaves can be added by cloning the SD card of the first slave. So 1 slave or 100, it isn't much harder. If you want something that looks real cool and will keep for show, it would be worth it.

     

    Dale

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