Supplies for Raspberry Pi Supercomputer



What you'll need to build your own supercomputer:

  • 2+ Raspberry Pis. One of the Pis will be the master node, the rest are worker nodes. You can "simulate" a full supercomputer on a single computer as well, but then it's not really a supercomputer.
  • 2+ power supplies (cellphone chargers) for the pis
  • 2+ SD cards with preferably 8gb+ in storage.
  • 2+ cat5 or cat6 cables

Depending on the amount of nodes you have, and your router/modem, you may also need to buy a switch.

You may also want to opt for some stack-able Raspberry Pi cases if you have many nodes.

The switches I use: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156250

The stack-able case I use: https://www.etsy.com/listing/162751021/dual-stackable-media-center-case-for?ref=related-0

The next tutorial:





  • Build a Supercomputer with Raspberry Pis

  • Intro

  • Supplies
  • Installing Operating System

  • Downloading and installing MPI

  • Testing Supercomputer

  • MPI with MPI4py Introduction

  • Installing mpi4py for use with Python and MPI

  • First basic MPI script with mpi4py

  • Using conditional, Python, statements alongside MPI commands example

  • Getting network processor size with the size command

  • Sending and Receiving data using send and recv commands with MPI

  • Dynamically sending messages to and from processors with MPI and mpi4py

  • Message and data tagging for send and recv MPI commands tutorial

  • MPI broadcasting tutorial with Python, mpi4py, and bcast

  • Scatter with MPI tutorial with mpi4py

  • Gather command with MPI, mpi4py, and Python