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<p style="margin: 0;"><span>Not sure I'd call 64 connected Pi's a 'super-computer'.<span>  Especially when a OMAP5432 is >16x faster than a Pi at only ~2x the board area.  And boards like the Adapteva Parallella are orders of magnitude faster than that, smaller, and lower power.  Even a single high end gaming i7 has orders of magnitude more computing power than the entire 64 node Pi cluster - and cheaper too!</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;"><span><span>Props for cool factor though.  But it's mostly because of the legos!</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;"><span><span>-Alan</span></span></p>
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<br/>On February 1, 2013 at 7:04 AM Jim Lynch <ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com> wrote:
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<br/>> Short http://bit.ly/W6xkTs
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<br/>> http://www.element14.com/community/people/cortmeyer/blog/2013/01/30/my-attempt-at-building-a-raspberry-pi-supercomputer?et_cid=22268265&et_rid=3594481&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.element14.com%2fcommunity%2fpeople%2fcortmeyer%2fblog%2f2013%2f01%2f30%2fmy-attempt-at-building-a-raspberry-pi-supercomputer&CMP=EMC-22268265
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