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Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

Posted Sep 13, 2012 21:25 UTC (Thu) by atai (subscriber, #10977)
Parent article: Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

A challenge: A supercomputing cluster of Commodore 64s

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Posted Sep 14, 2012 11:04 UTC (Fri) by wazoox (subscriber, #69624) [Link]

Someone actually did a cluster of Apple IIs, using the joystick port for signaling IIRC. I must have this in a bookmark somewhere... Got it:

http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/AppleCrateII.html

Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

Posted Sep 14, 2012 14:46 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]

I remember when the Acorn Archimedes came out - the tenuous connection to this news story being that it had an ARM2 CPU - one of the benchmarking exercises done by one computing magazine involved comparing the new system's time to execute a program to that of a group of twenty BBC Microcomputers (6502 CPU) working on the same task in parallel.