When we first saw [Ajlitt’s] Hackaday.io project Terrible Cluster we thought, perhaps, he meant terrible in the sense of the third definition: 3. exciting terror, awe, or great fear; dreadful; awful. ...

Raspberry Pi nodes have been used by a researcher based at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US to develop and build an affordable Raspberry Pi super computer that is scalable and also ...

Last week I used every Raspberry Pi that I had to build a six-node HexaPi computing cluster. Since then I have been asked a number of times: what is it good for? So I'm going to take a look at the ...

Containers are useful in many computing projects, be it hosting FOSS services, developing programs inside isolated environments, or experimenting with fun packages and repositories. But when you’ve ...

If you would have ever fancied owning your very own portable supercomputer, you may be interested in a new Raspberry Pi 2 power system that takes the form of a portable supercomputing cluster ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Several people in the maker space have made clusters using the miniature computers made by Raspberry Pi. The small form-factor PCs are ...

The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a Linux cluster around Raspberry Pi devices as part of an effort to help kids and adults learn about parallel computing. SDSC, part of the University of ...

I've been involved with cluster computing ever since DEC introduced VAXcluster in 1984. In those days, a three node VAXcluster cost about $1 million. Today you can build a much more powerful cluster ...

The big (yet small) picture: The much-awaited Raspberry Pi 4 is out, and it comes with much improved performance - so much so that the board's launch website is almost entirely powered by 18 Raspberry ...