Aidan Percy
New member
Hey everyone,
I'm a high school senior and I wanted to build a relatively large cluster (30+ nodes) for many reasons, but mainly for educational purposes, my science fair this March (I won last year by demonstrating how music and conversation affects active memory by using the n-back test, cool stuff I know), and also to put on my professional resume. Now, from what I've seen digging around for a few days, the most popular option for making an educational cluster is the Raspberry Pi, but here is a few problems I have with using the RPi.
So my question is to all of you smart lads is:
With the help of a few people (smarter than I), is this a feasible project, or will it be like playing Dark Souls 2 but without a sword or armor while blindfolded?
Also, I have a few reservations about using Teensy 4.0's:
To predict what you're going to claim about me needing a device to act as the master node, I would probably use a LattePanda, because I'm a Windows 10 kinda guy.
For the software... well... I'm still figuring that out, but I assume it will be something like Docker, Swarm, and Kubernetes, maybe a visualization software for monitoring my node performance. All that good stuff.
For the budgeting, I'm assuming I'll have around $1400 to play around with, due to some very nice people willing to see me pull my hair out for 2 months straight.
Thank you all for reading and I would really appreciate any feedback I can get! Take care.
Pssst, If you would like to take a more active roll in helping me create this, please hop in this Discord server I made for the project: " https://discord.gg/HB7uZe8 " I will commonly post updates and ask questions here for the people who prefer to use this platform.
I'm a high school senior and I wanted to build a relatively large cluster (30+ nodes) for many reasons, but mainly for educational purposes, my science fair this March (I won last year by demonstrating how music and conversation affects active memory by using the n-back test, cool stuff I know), and also to put on my professional resume. Now, from what I've seen digging around for a few days, the most popular option for making an educational cluster is the Raspberry Pi, but here is a few problems I have with using the RPi.
- It has a lot of unnecessary ports.
- Its a little more expensive than what I'd like to node (verb), as I'm looking for numbers rather than sheer hash speed.
- It has already been done too many times to be impressive, and I want that "wow" factor, much like what Martin A. Smith did with his 16-node ROCK64 cluster.
- If I wanted to do anything like the RPi, I'd use the ODROID-MC1 stack that's already available... but I like pain.
- Oh yeah I should mention, I want this to be a headless-node cluster.
So my question is to all of you smart lads is:
With the help of a few people (smarter than I), is this a feasible project, or will it be like playing Dark Souls 2 but without a sword or armor while blindfolded?
Also, I have a few reservations about using Teensy 4.0's:
- I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Arduino type devices.
- This post on the Arduino forum when another highschooler asked the same question I am but using other Arduinos for a cluster:
To predict what you're going to claim about me needing a device to act as the master node, I would probably use a LattePanda, because I'm a Windows 10 kinda guy.
For the software... well... I'm still figuring that out, but I assume it will be something like Docker, Swarm, and Kubernetes, maybe a visualization software for monitoring my node performance. All that good stuff.
For the budgeting, I'm assuming I'll have around $1400 to play around with, due to some very nice people willing to see me pull my hair out for 2 months straight.
Thank you all for reading and I would really appreciate any feedback I can get! Take care.
Pssst, If you would like to take a more active roll in helping me create this, please hop in this Discord server I made for the project: " https://discord.gg/HB7uZe8 " I will commonly post updates and ask questions here for the people who prefer to use this platform.