On Sun Feb 16 11:38:35 EST 2014, [email protected] wrote: > Quoting Peter Hull <[email protected]>: > > > It would be interesting to see Plan 9 running on the 40-node Raspberry > > Pi 'supercomputer'! > > http://likemagicappears.com/projects/raspberry-pi-cluster/ > > Pete > > I'd say that's a groundbreaking new field all its own. Perhaps "LPC" > or "subparcomputing"
you jest, but ron built a similar thing with the gumstix and the stagecoach module. iirc, the purpose was to have a machine small and cheep enough to experiment on, not to be a efficient way to bring cycles to bear. obviously the interconnect is going to be the issue. which gives me a very interesting idea on interconnects. .... - erik
