I've been involved with cluster computing ever since DEC introduced VAXcluster in 1984. In those days, a three node VAXcluster cost about $1 million. Today you can build a much more powerful cluster ...

Plenty of folks have used their Raspberry Pi as a web server. [Steve] however is the first 8 node load balanced pi cluster server we’ve run into. While we have seen pi clusters before, they’ve never ...

Design Spark – a Raspberry Pi ($39) can be used to emulate a mainframe which would have filled a large computer room, and to run the same software which it would have run. Of course, the only reason ...

February 26, 2016 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The Raspberry Pi’s great, but it’s certainly not that powerful. One way to boost that power is to create a ...

Prof Simon J Cox works for the University of Southampton and is Director of the Microsoft Institute for HPC (at University of Southampton). He receives funding from UK Government Research bodies and ...

[Paul Brown] wants to take advantage of off-site server colocation services. But the providers within [Paul]’s region typically place a limit of 1A @ 120V on each server. Rather than search out ...

Over the years, I’ve tinkered with all sorts of home lab paraphernalia, including repurposed PCs, efficient mini-PCs, and even enterprise-grade hardware. But despite owning significantly more powerful ...