Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

[rhoit]

Steps to make Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

Prof Simon Cox

Computational Engineering and Design Research Group

Faculty of Engineering and the Environment

University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.



V0.2: 8th September 2012

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomputer_southampton.htm

[Lava Kafle]

great knowledge woow
Lava Kafle
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Kathmandu University
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[Sakar]

so. are we gonna make one. Nepal's first supercomputer?

I'm game to do what I can to make it happen. If someone wants to take a shot at pricing it out that will be a good start.

-S

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[Lava Kafle]

lets leap

[Rabi Bhattarai]

Not to discourage you but inform, It is better talk to Muni Bahadur Shakya.
He made first linux cluster based super computer way back. Probably he
worked on Linux and OpenMosix. Even LTSP + OpenMosix combination does
a good work.

Wish you all the best.

I worked on test-for-self in my own lab in 2007 and dropped as I found
no practical application of such a deployment for my own need. It is
good for a learning purpose but be clear with your objective and go
ahead so that no distraction should limit you after you work.

My final suggestion, do it for personally if you want to work on it,
not because some one will give a credit to your work !!!

My wishes are with you.

Ravi Bhattarai
IT,NLP and QMS Practitioner and Trainer

[Lava Kafle]

we off course know muni shakya sir hehe , but this one raspberry is different from what he did decades ago

[Sakar P]

God knows if it will be useful but it sure will be fun. And that I'd good enough for me. Karkhana i.e our hacker space that will come online in mid oct might the best place to attempt this ( or some cool variant of it) . So who,s in? And who knows enough about pi to give us and initial briefing? I'll workon acquiring a few of the suckers to sand box with

-s

Sent from my iPod

[Lava Kafle]

meanwhile India is producing first ever most powerful supercomputer by itself as news in siliconindia revealed, so, we must be able to create one and make use in government data mining, police data, locality data and population statistics processing !!!!

[kapil nakhwa]

Perhaps i can get my hands on my first raspberry pi within another week. I'll let you guys know. I was thinking about a different use to it. I'll let you guys know my experiences on this list.

[Bobby Basnyat]

@Sakar ,

But Nepal's First Super Computer had already been built, by Muni Bhadur Shakya (High Tech Pioneers)

[Sakar]

great. then lets build the second or third or what ever. the point is not to be on a podium and win a medal but to experiment... begin with an intention but let it mutate to something else exciting

-s

[rhoit]

Correct me if i'm wrong!

### ROUGH ESTIMATE ###
Hardware : $25 to $35 per piece
Shipping Charge : < as per vendor >
Lan Cable: ~ Rs 100 per meter

#### To build 64 node array: #### ($1600 + Rs. 20,000) to ($2240 + Rs.
30,000)
Hardware : $1600 - $2240
Shipping charge : Unknown
Lan Cable: Rs 10,000

Router : Rs 8000 - 15,000
Lego blocks : Rs 2000 - 4000
Multiplug : Rs 500 - 600

[Lava Kafle]

Thanks Rhoit, we need sponsor

Lava Kafle
Ms by Research in Computer Science 

Kathmandu University
cell: 

9841224387
9801034557

[Sakar]

2500 + 400 (32000 rupees)  = 2900 so lets say 3000 dollars or about 240000 rupees including momo/coke for the late nights of work :-) an effort for sure but not undoable. lava's suggest approach of finding a sponsor is one great method. another we can consider is crowdfunding. more will come up as we brainstorm.

so i just ordered 4 of them... but they are are back-ordered as much as 3 months. this is good news because it gives us time to plan our strategy. i say everyone interested get together in person and plot how we want to proceed. 

a couple of my thoughts:

- someone want to take the lead on compiling a nice little briefing on the raspberry pi, how it works etc and become technical group leader? i would love to be brought up to speed on it, also as more people join the project it will be nice to have a set orientation to give them

- space to construct and keep the machine. plus reliable power at the space. (this i can provide if the team approves after examining the space)

- lets not just replicated the design used in the link. lets most def understand it, use it as a foundation and try alternate methods where we can. 

-s 

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[Lava Kafle]

I agree Sakar, crowdfunding is way to go as you suggested. Could You, Rhoit, Bobby, Chandan first make a team ? then make sequential steps until we need to desogn parallely, Its like buiolding Big Cloud in those limited machines. Correct me if i am wrong.
I also agree with ur idea that we dont do old steps, but new innovative , our own if possible.
Lets start to get quotations of hardware from 3 vendors.

Lava Kafle
Ms by Research in Computer Science 

Kathmandu University
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9841224387
9801034557

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Sakar <sak...@gmail.com> wrote:

can

[Avinash]

Hello,

if someone is ordering a Pi, i would like to order one too. Where have we been ordering it from ? 

Regards,

Avinash

[prakash Neupane]

Rohit

I think you may take a lead of it(Chandan and other guys are with you)..... but i know you are in Summer camp. 

So Sakar sir, when will this start on... may be  until time, Rohit and his team will over this summer camp. 

Regards

Prakash Neupane

[the....@gmail.com]

summer camp is over 2 days ago. i guess this projects takes up the fire. raspberri pi just an amazing piece of hardware.
I guess beebek (not our foss beebek hai) will really excited about if this project.

[the....@gmail.com]

lava dai can you help us finding us sponsor??

[samundra shrestha]

This idea is similar to the idea of having OpenLab. Good Luck to all.
Who knows one day we'll have OpenLab indeed :) May be this can be a
right time to begin.

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[the....@gmail.com]

sakar dai,
nice idea of crowd sourceing. why dont we meet up somewhere for disscussing this matter. how about next week somewhere.

[prakash Neupane]

Rohit,

you really picked the right point ............ lets meet hai..... Sakar dai, what you say? Are you here in Nepal?

 Lets decide the time and location as well. 

Regards

Prakash Neupane

[the....@gmail.com]

dear rabi dai,
this is not the project one person can easily do. we are not genious like Muni Bahadur Shakya sir.

time have changed we can find hundred of application to be run on these powerful machines. something
like statistical machine translation which we did last month in ku summer school, trust me on this one is really really takes lots of time.

or something like rendering 3D some ray tracing will take hell out machine.

it will really awsome if we are able to pull off this project and present as tribute to Muni Bahadur Sir.

[Sakar]

Hi All,

How about we meet Sat, Oct 6th. I'm on the road right now (in vietnam currently) but will be back that first week of Oct.

How about we meet here ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=27.709089&mlon=85.331116&zoom=18&layers=M ) on Oct 6th at 4 PM. Chia and/or beer on me ;-)

-S

[Bobby Basnyat]

All,

This thread has turned out to be one of the best thread ever :)

I would love to be part of it in anyways.


Regards 
~Bobby

P.S. @Sakar Dai: I just wanted to fact it out. This concept  just in paper only already sounds super exciting. This whole experience would be very remarkable to everyone. 

[prakash Neupane]

October 6th

oh my god..... that day GDG kathmandu  is organizing an event called Google DevFest . Can we do this meeting in sunday (7th oct)..... or anyother day?

regards
Prakash Neupane

[Lava Kafle]

Thanks for all this effort. We want to be seen on international map of open source contributors and real performers. once we complete this it helps us more recognition in days to come and that will pave initiatives for future generations to follow path set by us.
Rhoit, regarding funding yes, we will talk and decide how to raise it.
Thanks

Lava Kafle
Ms by Research in Computer Science 

Kathmandu University
cell: 

9841224387
9801034557

[Sakar]

sure. lets do it oct 7th. that work for everyone?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:07 AM, prakash Neupane <npr...@gmail.com> wrote:

[the....@gmail.com]

ya 7 oct

[Gaurav Ghimire]

Hi,

I would also like to be a part of it. Have we decided on the venue and time ?

Regards,

Gaurav

[Gaurav Ghimire]

Sorry :) I missed the OSM link earlier. 

[Sakar]

Hi All,

The raspberry pi bakers group meeting#1 is still on. I look forward to seeing you all and cooking up something tasty.

The deets are below:

Date: Oct 7, Sunday

Time: 4 PM

Venue: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=27.709089&mlon=85.331116&zoom=18&layers=M

Number: 9802072527

If you are prefer landmark based navigation to map reading... come to City Center Mall and proceed down the one way street towards Galaxy school. You will come to the Valley Petrol Pump in Gyneshwor... this is a sign that you are close. As you go forward, on the other side of the street you will see the USEF building... this is another sign that you are close. A few houses down you will see a Mazda dealership... this is a sign that you are closer still. Your next landmark is a big green gate with a large yellow building on the other side. If it helps anyone this used to formerly house 'International Primary School'. The green gate is between a building underconstruction and a little shop the fills the gas for car AC's. 

If you hit the Gyneshowor chowk you have gone too far.

Can I get some RSVP's so that I can get a rough head count of how many to expect?

-S

[prakash Neupane]

Sakar Dai ......
I think can we make google docs for info of participants ? So that we can conform the number some how.


Regards
PRakash Neupane

[samundra shrestha]

Is it only for those willing to take participate or visitors are
allowed as well. Those who are interested.

With best regards,
Samundra Shrestha

http://www.samundra.com.np
http://www.gplus.to/samundra
http://www.facebook.com/samundra.shrestha
http://www.twitter.com/samushr

[Dadhiram]

फोसको मेलमा गुगलको पनि बिश्वास फेरि गर्ने हो र ?? फेस बुक गुगलमा कमिट गरेर र धेरै समस्या परिसकेको छ होइन र ??
Best regards
Dadhiram Nepal
Kathmandu Nepal
Phone: 9851076047

[samundra shrestha]

Exactly same thing.

[Gaurav Ghimire]

How about I create a meet up group at meetup.com and we go thereof ? Not sure how much productive that would be though.

[Gaurav Ghimire]

Sorry … I did not know they charge. Well someone can take the lea (Sakar dai)  and we just RSVP him and meet there. If names are all that's needed google docs should be fine I guess, all we need is a headcount right?

[Avinash]

yay! ill come for sure. This place is too close to me.

So, the venue is the International School Area ??

I went and created a event on doodle.

Here is a link to a doodle event. Let us all fill for the event. eventually we will have a count! 

http://doodle.com/uh4wheszucxtnwdx#table

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Avinash

[Sakar]

Samundra,

Everyone is welcome. 

All,

If you are interested please take a min to put you name in http://doodle.com/uh4wheszucxtnwdx#table. This is not required but I'd like a headcount to plan for food, tea etc.

-S

[Lava Kafle]

the map is not readable for raspberry meeting sunday 4 pm, where is location could youm please tag using googlemap or describe location with vocabulary?

the place has nothing US library may be so we need exact location verbally.

Lava Kafle
Ms by Research in Computer Science 

Kathmandu University
cell: 

9841224387
9801034557

[samundra shrestha]

Thank you dai for the information.

[Sakar]

not readable in what sense? cause i can go to url and see a red marker that indicates the spot exactly. so maybe a problem on your end.

any one who needs directions can call me at 980 207 2527

-s

[rhoit]

Playing with Raspberry Pi "<thanks bee>"
https://picasaweb.google.com/116583879207187099925/RaspberryPi?authuser=0&feat=directlink

[rhoit]

[Sundar Kunwar]

Hi everyone,
Have Fun
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Thanks..

On 10/4/12, Sakar <sak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>

> The raspberry pi bakers group meeting#1 is still on. I look forward to
> seeing you all and cooking up something tasty.
>
> The deets are below:
>
> Date: Oct 7, Sunday
> Time: 4 PM

> Venue: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?**mlat=27.709089&mlon=85.331116&**
> zoom=18&layers=M<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=27.709089&mlon=85.331116&zoom=18&layers=M>

>>>>>>> How about we meet here ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/?**
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[Sakar]

For all of you interested in experimenting with Raspberry Pi in Nepal. The Pi Bakers group is getting its oven's warm. For the moment the group is still open, as most of us are starting on the ground floor... and the more experienced people are going to help us get up to speed with linux etc. Over time the group we will become more discerning about the skills required to jump in.

You can find the group on FB at: http://www.facebook.com/groups/piBakers/

Also the makerspace that will support this group (and hopefully other hackers/makers that want to experiment) has a google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB&fromgroups#!forum/karkhana and a website: http://www.karkhana.asia/

While we will cross-post big events to this list, we don't want to overwhelm this list. So most of the action will happen on the FB page or google group.

-S

[Lava Kafle]

Its the greatest initiative so far geeks, kudos to you all

Lava Kafle
Ms by Research in Computer Science 

Kathmandu University
cell: 

9841224387
9801034557

[kapil nakhwa]

Just got my hand on a raspberry pi . Planning to play around with it in this weekend... any suggestions regarding loading it up .. i'm planning on loading with Arch linux. Please share any information if you have done so before so i can save time instead of banging my head. 

[rhoit]

If you haven't used arch before it better not to try! Arch doesn't come
with GUI.

[rhoit]

I mean to say there will be no pre-install GUI! you got to install
yourself! read the archwiki / wikipedia. DON't Take other wise!

[Sakar]

ummm kapil,

how do we bribe you to share to some playing around time? lets start the bargin with one plate of chicken momos (and a tuborg, if you drink).

-S

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:57 PM, rhoit <the....@gmail.com> wrote:

I mean to say there will be no pre-install GUI! you got to install
yourself! read the archwiki / wikipedia. DON't Take other wise!

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[Kapil]

On 10/10/2012 01:36 PM, rhoit wrote:
> If you haven't used arch before it better not to try! Arch doesn't come
> with GUI.
>
>

Hmm, i have built arch system before. but consumed too much of my time.
Hopefully i will be able to do it less time. Will update after the weekend.

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