> > Yes.. not everything has to be nuts and bolts.. Sticky tape and Velcro. >
In the UK, we call this "Blue Peter Engineering". Jim Lux > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Beowulf [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eugen > Leitl > Sent: 2014-Jun-03 8:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Beowulf] Brian Guarraci (engineer at Twitter) is building a > Parallella cluster in his spare time > > > > http://www.parallella.org/2014/06/03/my-name-is-brian-and-i-build-supercomputers-in-my-spare-time/ > > Brian Guarraci is a software engineer at Twitter and in his spare time > he’s building a Parallella cluster with a design that was inspired by two > of the most iconic supercomputers ever made. > > When we saw pictures of Brian’s cluster we were impressed and when we > shared these with the community, it became apparent that we were not the > only ones! It didn’t take long before curiosity got the better of me and I > decided to get in touch with Brian to find out more… > > Hi Brian, can you tell me about the Parallella cluster you are building. > > I’m building a low-power general purpose compute cluster. I want it to be > able to take advantage of standard distributed system packages so that > there’s a familiar developer model. The Parallella boards are great for > computation but since they have relatively limited storage and memory, I > added two Intel NUCs. Each NUC has 1x Intel i3, 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD, > 802.11ac WiFi and are also pretty low-power. The NUCs run Ubuntu server and > are storage hosts and the primary interface to the external world. The > system has 8x Parallella boards and a shared gigabit Ethernet switch, > giving a peak performance of around 208 GFLOPs. > > ... > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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