[ale] R Pi supercomputer?

[alan at alanlee.org]

Not sure I'd call 64 connected Pi's a 'super-computer'.  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!

Props for cool factor though.  But it's mostly because of the legos!

-Alan


On February 1, 2013 at 7:04 AM Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:

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