Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

[HappyWood]

I was wondering if you guys have considered connecting multiple raspberry pis together to create a supercomputer of sorts. 

[porina]

Other people have done it. The performance is low enough that even a cluster of them wont amount to much. The best reason I heard for having one was to demonstrate and tech people how to program a supercomputer.

[tikker]

Plenty of Pi clusters have been done. They don't offer any significant computing power it's basically just for fun and to learn cluster stuff without the need to rob a bank and own a nuclear reactor to power everything.

 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/los_alamos_lab_creates_750_node_rpi_cluster/

 

[straight_stewie]

2 hours ago, HappyWood said:

I was wondering if you guys have considered connecting multiple raspberry pis together to create a supercomputer of sorts. 

It's actually not even very hard. However, you may consider doing this with linux virtual machines first, it's significantly cheaper if you're really just trying to learn.

[Guest]

I’ve considered it. It’s probably easier than using standard computers as it’s designed to use the serial, or io pins and input and output, (often digital) to talk to the other systems.