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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15/01/16 11:39, Ben Whorwood wrote: > Sounds really interesting. > > How did it work out performance wise? Did it exceed your > expectations? What kind of hardware were you running? We were using Raspberry Pi's The DCGLUG blog has several posts http://www.dcglug.org.uk/?s=cluster with the results, from pre meeting notes up to post meeting results and of course photos etc from the actual build I think you would need to dedicate a whole day or a good few hours and do some pre meeting preparation, For this Malcolm prepared some sd card images so everyone was pretty much set up on the evening. The point about what data to collect and what to do with it is important,if we are going to do this, then perhaps we need to do the SAME thing at 3 venues so we can compare results for example raspberry Pi geek (magazine) has an article on using a Pi and DHT11 temp / humidity module to monitor a reptile / snake enclosure (vivarium) perhaps given that you can get Arduino Uno (clone board) Arduino data logging module Plus what ever other bits are needed pretty cheap, then this could be a way to collect data. it is then a case of what to do with this, if we can like you said process the data and then present it in some way, via IoT. Maybe collect data on temperature in a room over the course of the day. or event. Question is can we get a sponsor for Parallella board ? Paul Hope this helps > > I have often wondered about the potential of clusters vs modern > processors (i7, etc) for certain applications. Based on your > experience do you feel older hardware as a cluster could be a > viable option for web hosting or similar? Thinking along the lines > of reuse rather than recycle and giving the old stuff a worthwhile > job. > > Could be additional applications for IoT with all the data being > collected from various sensors and such. All rather useless unless > the data can be processed and meaningful information produced. > > On 15/01/16 11:12, Paul Sutton wrote: > > > On 15/01/16 10:53, Ben Whorwood wrote: >>>> Please let us know if / when you get round to giving them a >>>> go as would be really interested in hearing your experiences >>>> and what kind of difference they make for certain >>>> applications. > We did build a small cluster at a Exeter Lug meeting once, we > calculated Pi. > > Malcolm from the Exeter lug (and possibly here) helped with this. > > North Devon Tech jam sounds good, The Cornwall jam is organised > with software Cornwall, Is there a similar group in Devon? who we > can get on board with. ? > > > Paul > >>>> Have there been any Beowulf clusters or similar set up as >>>> part of the southerly tech jams at all? Potential good / >>>> interesting use of old hardware (I certainly have a few parts >>>> lying around which I could contribute). Could "race" it >>>> against the Parallella Epiphany III... >>>> >>>> On 15/01/16 10:34, Tom wrote: >>>>> On 15/01/16 10:29, Ben Whorwood wrote: >>>>>> Looks interesting, thanks for the link. >>>>>> >>>>>> I wonder if it could be a good thing to get in for one of >>>>>> the Cornwall or Devon tech jams so people could >>>>>> experiment with any parallel processing applications >>>>>> they've been developing. Could remotely dial in and give >>>>>> it a go. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 15/01/16 10:11, Tom wrote: >>>>>>> http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/products/8194709/ This is >>>>>>> a 32Gflops 16 core for less than Â200 Runs Linux Tom te >>>>>>> tom te tom >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> I've got two but I haven't got round to playing with them >>>>> due to them being a year late when I got them and now my >>>>> man-shed not being up and running. If we could organise a >>>>> north devon tech jam,.... Tom te tom te tom >>>>> >>>> > -- http://www.zleap.net t: @zleap14 diaspora : > zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Documentation lead @ ToriOS > http://www.torios.org > > Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk Festival of Code 2016 > 1st - 5th August 2016 http://www.yrs.io >> > > - -- http://www.zleap.net t: @zleap14 diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Documentation lead @ ToriOS http://www.torios.org Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk Festival of Code 2016 1st - 5th August 2016 http://www.yrs.io -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlaY4o0ACgkQaggq1k2FJq0rtgCgg2qdPuC3SFhaZRB5MJEafhez ABwAnRXBFnvyCCEFI9XV8Ni9RTWP1i1h =4bF7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq