The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. But ...
The inspiration for this post (and this project) came from something that I recently read in the Raspberry Pi blog. I would like to start out by saying if you are interested in computers, programming, ...
It became something of a cliché a few years ago in online discussions, whenever a new single board computer was mentioned someone would pop up and say something like “Imagine a Beowulf cluster…“. Back ...
Last week I used every Raspberry Pi that I had to build a six-node HexaPi computing cluster. Since then I have been asked a number of times: what is it good for? So I'm going to take a look at the ...
YouTuber and Pi enthusiast Kevin McAleer has created a unique Raspberry Pi cluster inspired by the Cray 1 Supercomputer originally launched back in 1975 and pictured below. The Cray-1 was a ...
If you are wondering what the benefits of a Raspberry Pi cluster are and the applications that they can be used for, you will be pleased to know that Jeff Geerling has created a short 10 minute video ...
The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has launched. It’s a pretty big upgrade from the Raspberry Pi 3, with the company claiming that the device can provide “desktop performance comparable to entry-level x86 PC ...
Let’s say you’re a systems-software developer working on a program for a large supercomputer without access to one to actually test it on; what would you do? The High Performance Computing (HPC) ...
Surrounded by palm trees on Oracle’s university-like Santa Clara campus, two laboratories are bustling with activity on a summer day. “I hope it doesn’t start smoking when we plug it in,” Oracle open ...
The big (yet small) picture: The much-awaited Raspberry Pi 4 is out, and it comes with much improved performance - so much so that the board's launch website is almost entirely powered by 18 Raspberry ...