LFCS: A $99 supercomputer

Posted May 9, 2013 13:43 UTC (Thu) by kpfleming (subscriber, #23250)
In reply to: LFCS: A $99 supercomputer by Riba78
Parent article: LFCS: A $99 supercomputer

That wasn't 'missing' at all, it was the bulk of the content of the post. He said multiple times that software needs to be rewritten to take advantage of wide parallelism, and even that programmers will need to learn new skills (be retrained). Having a $99 board to use to learn such techniques on is a huge step in the right direction.

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LFCS: A $99 supercomputer

Posted May 9, 2013 14:00 UTC (Thu) by Funcan (guest, #44209) [Link] (1 responses)

What kpfleming said. Think of this like the rasberrypi - you're probably not going to replace all you existing systems with it, but it is fairly cheap, hopefully great for teaching on, and people will find novel uses for it.

LFCS: A $99 supercomputer

Posted May 11, 2013 3:29 UTC (Sat) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

For teaching supercomputing, the LittleFe cluster design is hard to beat. About 1-2k$, fits in checked luggage, CUDA+OpenMP+MPI.

Of course, this coulsd perhaps seve in a similar system.