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Uses for a Raspberry Pi supercomputer

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Former Member over 10 years ago

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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    johnbeetem over 10 years ago

    If you want to use RasPi as a supercomputer, you won't get very far using those ARM11 cores.  RasPi's real computing power is its VideoCore 4 GPU.  The ARM11 is just a weak I/O processor for the GPU.

     

    If you want to learn a lot and want to see how much of that 24 GFLOPS you can actually use, take a look at the VideoCore 4 document starting here: http://blog.broadcom.com/chip-design/android-for-all-broadcom-gives-developers-keys-to-the-videocore-kingdom/

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    Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    Yeah that GPU is much more powerful than the CPU however as you say the GPU info has been released but I've yet to see an Open CL implementation to allow for effective use of the GPU. Ironically I believe the Mali doco isn't as open yet there is an Open CL implementation for it !!

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    Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    Yeah that GPU is much more powerful than the CPU however as you say the GPU info has been released but I've yet to see an Open CL implementation to allow for effective use of the GPU. Ironically I believe the Mali doco isn't as open yet there is an Open CL implementation for it !!

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