I wonder if any of the folks who've built rpi clusters also 3D printed little individual graybox cases for them to make a fully functioning dollhouse beowulf cluster 🤔
@ghosttie repraps definitely have come a long ways, but even the really nice ones need a bit of maintenance here and there so ymmv. A community-owned one might be a better option as the maintenance is generally someone else's problem.
@aeva Been a long time since I've seen megatokyo mentioned anywhere. :)
If Beowulf ran on them, I probably have enough Arduinos to almost match a single Raspberry Pi 1. :)
(Although I could just use my Raspberry Pi 1 instead)
@kojack I think the term is just a general term for batch jobs distributed on commodity hardware over a LAN, so just about any hardware would qualify if someone wrote software to work with it
@klara Klara! I ran some very dubious numbers and you can build a cluster with about a dozen Raspberry Pi 5s and it would have roughly the same perf as my work computer (a 64 core threadripper) for about half the price (cheaper and cheaper if you account for rpis being SoCs). Power draw is about the same, too.
@aeva posts picture of multiple different computers, among which there are an atari mega st, an imac g5, a pentium something, at least one visibly empty case and a couple raspberries (not the sbc's) "look at me beowulf!"
@kwramm I think my entire awareness of beowulf clusters was from running dyne:bolic for a bit following a disk failure long ago (I had the CD on hand because I wanted to run it on my xbox, but I couldn't get it to work), and this comic https://megatokyo.com/strip/403
@aeva if that's a serious question, I feel old now :( ...but it's that boomer FOSS/Linux site that was popular 25 years ago. Building a Beowulf cluster of <insert most ridiculous hardware> was the equivalent in-joke of Running Doom on <ridiculous hardware> back on Slashdot.org
… mostly due to the power cost 😭 I definitely do not hoard parts for this. Nor have I considered the optimal configuration for laptops’ airflow if in such a use…
@aud in my case I know I am, because the power company sends me letters to praise me for being more awesome than my neighbors, complete with statistics. or at least, I think that's the intent. the letters also contain strange advice like turning down important cooling systems in the summer
@aeva technically I’m capable of folding my own, but absent the requisite spoons to work on my probably never gonna be finished dissertation, I just fire up folding@home, yep!
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