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ITT: Dumb questions. 2016-01-26 16:09:23 Post No. 52633357
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ITT: Dumb questions. Anonymous 2016-01-26 16:09:23 Post No. 52633357 [Report]

What are Raspberry pi clusters used for?

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Anonymous 2016-01-26 16:10:18 Post No.52633365
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Anonymous 2016-01-26 16:10:18 Post No.52633365 [Report]

>>52633357
Wasting power.

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Anonymous 2016-01-26 16:12:04 Post No.52633387
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Anonymous 2016-01-26 16:12:04 Post No.52633387 [Report]

Testing ethernet and USB cables.

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Anonymous 2016-01-26 16:18:18 Post No.52633480
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Anonymous 2016-01-26 16:18:18 Post No.52633480 [Report]

E peen

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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:13:32 Post No.52634309
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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:13:32 Post No.52634309 [Report]

Mostly education. Pretty useless otherwise.

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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:25:40 Post No.52634494
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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:25:40 Post No.52634494 [Report]

>>52633357
Me and a few friends got the physics dept to buy us a few RPis to build a cluster for running simulations

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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:26:54 Post No.52634508
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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:26:54 Post No.52634508 [Report]

>>52633357

Photo ops.

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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:28:24 Post No.52634531
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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:28:24 Post No.52634531 [Report]

education.

hard to get new machines for that cost per unit, so practicing setup of a distributed system is practical.

that said, the cost "per performance" is terrible so it's not for real computational benefit

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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:30:43 Post No.52634564
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Anonymous 2016-01-26 17:30:43 Post No.52634564 [Report]

>>>/g/sqt