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Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi SupercomputerSouthampton engineers a Raspberry Pi SupercomputerPosted Sep 14, 2012 10:47 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer by sciurus Parent article: Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer
I imagine that 'supercomputer', like 'mainframe', refers to the architecture of the machine rather than to any absolute measure of performance. A Cray-1 is a supercomputer and this machine is faster than that.
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Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer Posted Sep 14, 2012 16:18 UTC (Fri) by andrel (subscriber, #5166) [Link] Specifically, a supercomputer has a balanced architecture. In a true supercomputer the I/O, memory, and network subsystems are capable of keeping the CPUs going at full speed.This system doesn't have that sort of architecture.
Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer Posted Sep 14, 2012 22:14 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]
You forgot the most important: the cooling system.
No mention of it either.
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