Oracle Builds a Supercomputer with 1,060 Raspberry Pi Computers

guest · Sep 18, 2019

Oracle Builds a Supercomputer with 1,060 Raspberry Pi Computers
September 18, 2019
https://blog.hackster.io/oracle-bui...rry-pi-computers-6da1c3e2f8d9?gi=b2daa1493486

Raspberry Pi is definitely the world’s most popular single-board computer brand, and that popularity is primarily a result of their low cost and small size. Those factors make Raspberry Pi boards ideal for compact projects, and for portable devices in particular. Oracle, however, has taken the complete opposite approach and built a supercomputer made from a cluster of 1,060 Raspberry Pis.

In this case, the Raspberry Pis are running Oracle Autonomous Linux and Java. Those are being network booted through an Oracle Supermicro 1U Xeon server. A visualization of each Raspberry Pi node in the cluster is displayed on nine LCD screens, which are connected to a separate x86 computer.

The budget is, of course, pretty high for this build — roughly $40,000.
It’s debatable whether there is anything practical about a Raspberry Pi cluster, as dividing processing tasks between multiple computers over a network poses a number of problems, but that wasn’t the goal here.
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