26-11-2017 15:54 via rss.slashdot.org

There's A Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi's at Los Alamos National Lab

Slashdot reader overheardinpdx shares a video from the SC17 supercomputing conference where Bruce Tulloch from BitScope "describes a low-cost Rasberry Pi cluster that Los Alamos National Lab is using to simulate large-scale supercomputers." Slashdot reader mspohr describes them as "five rack-mount Bitscope Cluster Modules, each with 150 Raspberry Pi boards with integrated network switches."With each of the 750 chips packing four cores, it offers a 3,000-core highly parallelizable platform that e
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