Grid Computing on Raspberry Pi

[hawc]

Just spent the last hour or so reading and setting up BOINC on a Raspberry Pi.

I know that it is not the best in the world but it was a proof of concept that a Raspberry Pi could do grid computing.

Set it up on Albert@Home - the development branch of Einstein@Home.

I think that I will let one workunit run and then add some more projects.

I have another Pi and am awaiting another SD Card from Amazon, so I can add that Pi on.

 

If you have a spare Pi hanging around, connect it up and do some good for science.

 

Thanks

Harry

[PotNoodleTech]

Sounds very interesting! Rasberry PI Supercomputer with say 10 of them aint gonna break any speed records, but would be a great way to easily show pupils the advantages of Grid computing.

 

Any good links you've gleaned during your experiment?

[hawc]

BOINC on the Raspberry Pi | Ryanteck Blog is a good one and this tutorial Setting up BOINC on your Raspberry Pi | Ryanteck Blog

 

Only a few projects run on a Pi

Expand the operating system to the whole partition

Set an overclock (I use turbo)

 

You will want to install tightvncserver so that you can remotely control a Pi

[hawc]

I have Einstein@Home running and Enigma@Home running. 1 on each Pi.