A team from the University of Southampton with the help of Lego and Linux-software, a cluster built out of 64 Raspberry Pi nodes. The ‘supercomputer’ has a price tag of around 3100 euro.
In the construction of the Raspberry Pi project is not only a team of students under the direction of professor Professor Simon Cox, but also by the six-year-old son of Cox. He was, among others, the physical construction of the cluster with the help of Lego blocks, but was also occupied with the necessary software to allow the system to send. This is, among others, made use of the programming languages Python and C on top of a standard image of the Linux distribution Debian Wheezy installed.
In the construction of the cluster, that the name Iridis Pi, it is each Raspberry Pi node is equipped with a 16GB sd card. In total, the Iridis Pi 64 Raspberry Pi’s that are using the mpi protocol to communicate via a fixed ethernet connection.
The entire project has about a 2500 pound cost the equivalent of some 3100 euro. It would also be cheap computer cluster, thanks to the energy-efficient chips, the whole can be fed from a single 13A socket. The builders of the Iridis Pi and now have instructions posted online, while the “supercomputer” as the first rekenklus Pi had to calculate.
