Raspberry Pi Supercomputer
- Watercooled Pi
- Jul 23, 2015
- 1 min read
One Raspberry Pi project I have been looking at ever since I got my hands on my first Pi was a Raspberry Pi supercomputer - a cluster of multiple Raspberry Pis working together to crunch data far faster than a single pi.
This is called a “Beowulf Cluster” - A cluster of usually identical, consumer-grade computers networked together to allow processing to be shared among the individual computers, or “nodes” to share power. The advantage to a system like this is that each node is cheap, meaning the entire supercomputer itself is also cheap!
In fact, some of you might have participated in sort of Beowulf cluster over the Internet. Distributed computing projects such as Folding at Home and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allow any average computer to become part of a supercomputer.
There are many different versions of this project, but the one that stands out to me is the one by David Guill. His 40-node machine is functional, but importantly, also looks cool.
Unfortunately, such a project is probably not an option for me due to the costs involved. Maybe one day in the future...
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