On 01/11/2012 11:18 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > For educational purposes.. > > Has anyone done something where they implement some sort of message > passing API on a network of Arduinos. Since they cost only $20 each, > and have a fairly facile development environment, it seems you could > put together a simple demonstration of parallel processing and various > message passing things. > > For instance, you could introduce errors in the message links and do > experiments with Byzantine General type algorithms, or with multiple > parallel routes, etc. > > I've not actually tried hooking up multiple arduinos through a USB hub > to one PC, but if that works, it gives you a nice "head node, debug > console" sort of interface. > > Smaller, lighter, cheaper than lashing together MiniITX mobos or > building a Wal-Mart Cluster. >
I started tinkering with Arduinos a couple of months ago. Got lots of related goodies for Christmas, so I've been looking like a mad scientist building arduino things lately. I'm still a beginner arduino hacker, but I'd be game for giving this a try, if anyone else wants to give this a go. The Arduino Due, which is overdue in the marketplace, will have a Cortex-M3 ARM processor. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
