[QUOTE=M_B;34231364]ok quake 3 isn't really what i would consider "pretty good looking" in this day and age but yeah for the size and price is the angle. put 30-40 together and set it up just right you got yourself a hell of a bang for your buck in terms of space and price[/QUOTE]
There is no putting '' 30-40 together '' damnit
Wtf you think this is ? Lego ?
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Wow blkducky omega ninja. and we thought of the same thing too.
:tinfoil:
I wonder if someone will make a distributed cluster server for these things anyway.
After all, the GPIO pins have a dedicated serial console nestled in them, so you could set up a crude ring network, or possibly a mesh if you built your own system with the remaining 15 pairs.
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(I'm assuming it's pairs, it'd be a bit odd to have 17 IO pins)
[editline]15th January 2012[/editline]
No wait. 26 IO pins, 17 reprogrammable from software and the rest do specific things. [url=http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard#Components]useful wiki link[/url].
[QUOTE=M_B;34231364]ok quake 3 isn't really what i would consider "pretty good looking" in this day and age but yeah for the size and price is the angle. put 30-40 together and set it up just right you got yourself a hell of a bang for your buck in terms of space and price[/QUOTE]
uh, 40 model Bs would be 1400 bucks
you can get the power of 40 pi's with a 700$ computer if I'm thinking straight today
[QUOTE=Captain_Crazy;34231758]uh, 40 model Bs would be 1400 bucks
you can get the power of 40 pi's with a 700$ computer if I'm thinking straight today[/QUOTE]
Someone test weather 40 Model A's ($1000) would out perform a $700 PC in Linpack
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34231838]Someone test weather 40 Model A's ($1000) would out perform a $700 PC in Linpack[/QUOTE]
The CPU in these things is just over half the performance of a 100Mhz 486, I doubt a thousand of them could compete with a $700 PC from a few years ago.
Edit: It's rated at 3.5 MFLOPS, a CPU from 4-5 years ago was near the 10 GLFOPS mark.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34230966]I wonder if I could install X, and then run WINE in QEMU for ARM, then install HL1 1.1.1.0[/QUOTE]
Wine only works on x86 CPUs. You would need something like QEMU, which would be extremely slow on ARM.
[QUOTE=Mechanical43;34231472]There is no putting '' 30-40 together '' damnit
Wtf you think this is ? Lego ?
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Wow blkducky omega ninja. and we thought of the same thing too.
:tinfoil:[/QUOTE]
i don't literally mean put them together like lego i mean link them together as you very well can do, are you retarded?
[QUOTE=Mr.T;34110262][h2]What is this supercomputer you talk about?[/h2]
Well, since these computers are so cheap you can basically buy 10 of them and link them together. Put it in your backpack along with a battery
and you're good to go.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;34232124]The CPU in these things is just over half the performance of a 100Mhz 486, I doubt a thousand of them could compete with a $700 PC from a few years ago.
Edit: It's rated at 3.5 MFLOPS, a CPU from 4-5 years ago was near the 10 GLFOPS mark.[/QUOTE]
What if you use the GPU's. But yeah, the only pro you could get out of a cluster of these things would be power consumption.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;34232207]Wine only works on x86 CPUs. You would need something like QEMU, which would be extremely slow on ARM.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/rbPEU.png[/img]
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[QUOTE=M_B;34232254]i don't literally mean put them together like lego i mean link them together as you very well can do, are you retarded?[/QUOTE]
What on earth gives you the idea that you can link them together?
Lexic, QEMU emulating x86 on this thing would be so slow, you'd be struggling to run anything at all, let alone a bloody game.
I was commenting on his reading abilities, not the validity of doonbugie's silly claims.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34232285]What if you use the GPU's. But yeah, the only pro you could get out of a cluster of these things would be power consumption.[/QUOTE]
The GPU is much faster (About 8 GFLOPS, on par with the desktops CPUs I mentioned), but they're not as fully fledged as desktop GPUs, so you can't run general purpose code on them. So while it's probably possible to link them together over a fast link, you couldn't do much with the result (Games would render faster, but the CPU side wouldn't be by much, etc.)
How does operating systems work? will i be able to run anything ill usually be able to run on Linux or does it need a special ARM version?
[QUOTE=SubbyV-2;34233660]How does operating systems work? will i be able to run anything ill usually be able to run on Linux or does it need a special ARM version?[/QUOTE]
An operating system works by operating the system. You should be able to use anything that is compiled for ARM.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34233699]An operating system works by operating the system. You should be able to use anything that is compiled for ARM.[/QUOTE]
So, special ARM versions?
[QUOTE=SubbyV-2;34233734]So, special ARM versions?[/QUOTE]
What do you mean.
[QUOTE=SubbyV-2;34233734]So, special ARM versions?[/QUOTE]
Only for more complex programs/applications.
For example quake 3's game engine had to be compiled for the ARM platform, but that's (somewhat) easy since the source code is freely available.
Less complex programs and applications usually don't need architecture specific versions.
[QUOTE=Van-man;34233789]Only for more complex programs/applications.
For example quake 3's game engine had to be compiled for the ARM platform, but that's (somewhat) easy since the source code is freely available.
Less complex programs and applications usually don't need architecture specific versions.[/QUOTE]
They do if you change instruction sets. x86 machine code won't run on ARM.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;34228375]If you're planning on buying a screen, a keyboard, a battery and building a case... You're forgetting about these things called "Smartphones". You can find 2 year old smartphones for around $150 if you're lucky (I got my Nexus S for around that much), which might end up being what you'd pay after buying everything. They'll have a smaller casing, a faster CPU, Wifi, better battery life, ect. For a wrist computer, a used Android phone / iPod Touch with an arm-band would be much more practical than something that looks like a brick-sized IED. A true Android-based watch is available (Motoactv), which some guy hacked to run regular Android applications.
If you're interested in using the Pi for headless purposes, check out what this guy did with a tiny, cheap TP-Link router: [url]http://www.minipwner.com/index.php/what-is-the-minipwner[/url]
It has Gigabit Ethernet, Wifi N, OpenWRT compatible, serial header, one USB port and it's powered by MicroUSB. With the battery pack he bought, it gets about five hours of usage. It might be possible to use it as a very light webserver or some sort of NAS device with some firmware modifications.[/QUOTE]
you're literally ruining every bit of fun anyone could possibly have
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34233755]What do you mean.[/QUOTE]
Can i have an ARM version of linux and download/run normal linux apps? (i have never touched linux before)
[QUOTE=Lexic;34233826]They do if you change instruction sets. x86 [B]machine code[/B] won't run on ARM.[/QUOTE]
And that's EXACTLY what I meant by complex.
Just couldn't remember it.
[QUOTE=Van-man;34233886]And that's EXACTLY what I meant by complex.
Just couldn't remember it.[/QUOTE]
You mean anything that's not a script?
Ok so what sweet things can I do with this by just having it sit in my room somewhere?
I'm going to use mine as a web server, add a web cam, or something I can plug sensors into and show things like weather (Or to be evil, wire up an IR LED and use it to change the TV channel while I'm out)
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;34233834]you're literally ruining every bit of fun anyone could possibly have[/QUOTE]
Possibly, though I'm not the one expecting crysis to run on a computer that doesn't even have a real time clock.
Anyone wanting to cluster these things has the wrong idea. A cluster doesn't seamlessly double the processing power to any application, they need to be written specifically for a cluster. Most clusters are used for rendering or to run simulations for science experiments, not to play Minecraft. Clusters are generally used when a single computer wouldn't be cost effective to run the simulations or renders. When $500 worth of Raspberry Pis won't keep up with a $150 x86 computer, there's no practical use beyond doing it for the hell of it.
That said, I'm definitely going to buy one or two of these as a network media player (Subsonic front end?) or as an Arduino on steroids.
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;34233576]The GPU is much faster (About 8 GFLOPS, on par with the desktops CPUs I mentioned), but they're not as fully fledged as desktop GPUs, so you can't run general purpose code on them. So while it's probably possible to link them together over a fast link, you couldn't do much with the result (Games would render faster, but the CPU side wouldn't be by much, etc.)[/QUOTE]
You can actually do 'Compute' on Raspberry Pi's GPU.
Well technically as long as you can read back a buffer from the GPU (Which OpenGL allows) you can run general purpose code on them, but you wouldn't want to do that for every day use.
That said, I'm not knocking this stuff as a learning platform (That's it's primary use), so if you want to learn how to do that on this system then go for it. I'm talking about the people who expect this to offer performance comparable to a laptop/desktop, or are thinking of using it as a games hub, etc.
[QUOTE=Lexic;34232301][img]http://i.imgur.com/rbPEU.png[/img]
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[QUOTE=M_B;34232254]i don't literally mean put them together like lego i mean link them together as you very well can do, are you retarded?[/QUOTE]*
What on earth gives you the idea that you can link them together?[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/rO4k07.jpg[/IMG]
It all makes sense ..
[QUOTE=Lexic;34232301]What on earth gives you the idea that you can link them together?[/QUOTE]
uh, maybe because it's in the op, did you not read it?
[QUOTE=Mechanical43;34236421][IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/rO4k07.jpg[/IMG]
It all makes sense ..[/QUOTE]oh please
[QUOTE=M_B;34236646]oh please[/QUOTE]
I wonder what will happen if I were to change your title
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