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jacquesm on July 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Raspberry Pi cluster

I did the exact same thing (cluster to compress MP3's), only I had a paying customer for the job which (handsomely) paid for the work and the cluster.

The boxes are long gone but the pictures remain:

http://www.clustercompute.com/

frik on July 24, 2016 [–]

I like how it was called "beowulf cluster" back then, it's a while I read that name. We had an 160 node beowulf cluster (had already USB support, no floppy drives) for OpenMP and CILK jobs it was amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster

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