Designing a High Performance Parallel Personal Cluster

Kristina Kapanova is a PhD student studying quantum effects on semiconductor devices. Without a supercomputer to perform calculations, she was unable to do any work. She built her own supercomputer, using off-the shelf hardware.

[SetMyLife]

The performance/cost ratio is not very clear from the presentation, although it feels like little bang for buck. It is an interesting project though.

Apologies for my pessimism - academia projects simply don't play my note.

[Andreas-ghis]

The question that interests me the most about such projects is whether you can get more computational power from such a cluster than from one or two PC/server like devices which cost the same amount of money or have the same power consumption.

[desireisfundamental]

Браво Кристина . Много интересно. Аз пък търся как да си направя cluster с AMD и Nvidia карти и да използвам CUDA и Vulkan в едно :D

[TunjungUtomo]

So what's constitute a "supercomputer"? I feel that this term is being used inappropriately in this presentation. I know it sounds much catchier, but it deflects from the real point that she build a computing cluster from a series inexpensive SBC, which in itself nothing to be ashamed of, in fact, she should really proud of

[aa-xegq]

Or I can say it's a low-cost cluster? just curious, what script she used to dispatch each board?

[roidroid]

Wouldn't a modern GPU have better computational capabilities? I thought that was where it was at

[speedsrj]

Very good! Just couldn't find her in linkedin or Facebook!

[prashanthb]

How do they communicate with each other if not for Ethernet ?

[KRoc]

I wonder how she interfaced with it. I would imagine you could use Putty and a serial connection.

[satanlover]

4:40 I'm from Bulgaria raspberry pis have GPUs, if you're gonna spend more money then you would on them you would get thinkpads I'm just saying!