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 ...

Many readers will have had their first taste of experimentation with cluster computing through the medium of the Raspberry Pi. The diminutive Linux capable boards can easily be hooked up as a group ...

Let’s say you’re a systems-software developer working on a program for a large supercomputer without access to one to actually test it on; what would you do? The High Performance Computing (HPC) ...

The Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) has installed a supercomputer testbed built from a cluster of 750 Raspberry Pis, which could grow to 10,000 Pi boards next year. A huge cluster of cool-running ...

A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive ...

Containers are useful in many computing projects, be it hosting FOSS services, developing programs inside isolated ...

The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has launched. It’s a pretty big upgrade from the Raspberry Pi 3, with the company claiming that the device can provide “desktop performance comparable to entry-level x86 PC ...

Supercomputers are typically huge and expensive, and they take an awful lot of power to run. Looking for a cheaper way allow developers to build and test high performance computer system software, the ...

Last year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation delivered the third model of its professional-grade Raspberry Pi board. The Compute Module 3 (CM3) is a testament to the accelerating use of the commercial-grade ...