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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Had never heard of Raspberry Pi until last weekend
at Asheville BeerFest. Struck up a conversation with a guy from Tampa who
told me he's using Raspberry Pi to automate his homebrew setup, controlling
temperatures, pumps, flow rates etc. Damfino how, but that's what he
said.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Any other such applications anyone's run
across?</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jim.kinney@gmail.com href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">Jim
Kinney</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ale@ale.org
href="mailto:ale@ale.org">Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 01, 2013 9:43
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ale] R Pi
supercomputer?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>+1!!!!!<BR><BR>It's really amazing that a 10 year old has
access to the ability to build a clustered system that won't bankrupt small
countries. High performance? Nope. But the principles are still the
same.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Bronosky <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:richard@bronosky.com"
target=_blank>richard@bronosky.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<P dir=ltr>Alan, it's not about building the fastest, most energy/cost
efficient supercomputer. It's the fact that the experience it's now
attainable for schools, or even members of this group who have never been
employed in tech. We get questions all the time from people asking how they
can get the experience to get that first job. Now instead of suggesting they
network a few 386 machines together, it's reasonable to suggest they build a
supercomputer. What an exciting time to be alive!</P>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Feb 1, 2013 7:53 AM, "<A
href="mailto:alan@alanlee.org" target=_blank>alan@alanlee.org</A>" <<A
href="mailto:alan@alanlee.org" target=_blank>alan@alanlee.org</A>>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><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: 0px"><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: 0px"><SPAN><SPAN>-Alan</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 5px 0px"><BR>On February 1, 2013 at 7:04 AM Jim Lynch
<<A href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com"
target=_blank>ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</A>> wrote: <BR><BR>>
Short <A href="http://bit.ly/W6xkTs"
target=_blank>http://bit.ly/W6xkTs</A> <BR>> <BR>> Long <BR>> <A
href="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"
target=_blank>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</A>
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III<BR><I><I><I><I><BR></I></I></I></I>Every time you stop a school, you will
have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's
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