Raspberry pie cluster for gaming

[Crazybio]

You should make a videos on this board I found called a...turning pi the easy way to cluster linex computers. Possible gaming system for the low. This board takes raspberry pi's with no i.o ports and just clicks together please get back to me lol.

[Crazybio]

Easy super computers

 

[riklaunim]

21 minutes ago, Crazybio said:

Possible gaming system for the low

Latency kills any low latency use.

[Blue4130]

23 minutes ago, Crazybio said:

You should make a videos on this board I found called a...turning pi the easy way to cluster linex computers. Possible gaming system for the low. This board takes raspberry pi's with no i.o ports and just clicks together please get back to me lol.

I am not aware of any gaming software that runs on a cluster. 

[trag1c]

Last I checked Raspberry Pi's only ever had an ARM solution so trying to get code that was never designed for or compiled to an ARM (or RISC based for that matter) architecture would be quite a feat to get running let alone running at an acceptable rate. Another issue is that very few games were designed to be split among multiple systems or nodes like that. About the closest you could come to is the PS3 with its multiple SPU's which were extremely high performing special processing cores that are purely designed for multiple floating point operations with a single instruction or SMID. Now for another big issue is latency between nodes because you're now splitting up computation between multiple nodes so its ultimately going to run like absolute dog shit because distributed computing isn't designed to run real time applications like that. Especially since this would be over ethernet protocols not even PCIe buses. You can run in a VM on a single machine without too many issue but trying to do that with something thats very interactive then you're screwed. Going back to the SPU's on the PS3 which would absolutely crush any Raspberry Pi out there in performance for the simple fact that its specially designed silicone for linear algebra. The only way that this cluster system could possibly work is with a mixture of FPGA's CPU's and GPU's working in a weird bastardized way designed to use CPU's for very generic operations, FPGA's for running any system math and the submitting that to the GPU's for shading and rasterization. But all this has do be done at the very least 33ms to get you 30fps which still doesn't include transmission time to back and forth between the client and the cluster.

[svmlegacy]

There's much more to CPU's than just numbers...

 

Besides, most games do not run on ARM.

[ProjectBox153]

Unfortunately there are a lot of things in the way of doing something like this with a Raspberry Pi. It wouldn't end up saving any money even if it did work. 

[akio123008]

RasPi clusters are pretty overrated. Sure they can be powerful, but a single bigger machine will be more powerful and probably cost less.

 

Cluster computing is useful if you need such extreme amounts of processing power that a single system won't cut it. If there is a single system (that can be built with standard parts) that can do the task, a compute cluster is just a pointless idea that adds lots of technical difficulties and overhead.

 

On top of that the RasPi is ARM based, so it won't run any actual PC game anyway.

[TheRandomness]

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