<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>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 1, 2013 7:53 AM, "<a href="mailto:alan@alanlee.org">alan@alanlee.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alan@alanlee.org">alan@alanlee.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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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<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:
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