Tiny Titan
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Tiny Titan
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Re: Tiny Titan
#2Hard for me to find, but the instructions for building are, https://tinytitan.github.io/downloads/TinyTitanBuildGuide.pd...
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#3More descriptive title, e.g. ‘Tiny Titan, a $1,000 classroom supercomputer’ would be helpful.
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#4More descriptive title, e.g. ‘Tiny Titan, a $1,000 classroom supercomputer’ would be helpful.
How does this cost $1,000? The budget is clearly not being used efficiently. The only computing part, the 9 RPi's are 315$ all together. So what, 685$ of plastic and accessories. Hmm....
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#5Why not just use virtual machines to sub out the RPis? Without the curriculum, it's not clear what they're trying to teach here. Assembly? Networking? Administration of the RPis?
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#6This is still using original Series Bs... which are essentially obsolete by now. I stopped using them around 2 years ago:
https://github.com/rcarmo/raspi-cluster
Using Pi 3 boards would quadruple the number of cores and yield a 600% increase in thanks to the slightly faster default clock rate...
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#7This is still using original Series Bs... which are essentially obsolete by now. I stopped using them around 2 years ago: https://github.com/rcarmo/raspi-cluster Using Pi 3 boards would quadruple the number of cores and yield a 600% increase in thanks to the slightly faster default clock rate...
They're not actually trying to build a high-powered computing cluster, just demonstrate how one works.
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#8This is still using original Series Bs... which are essentially obsolete by now. I stopped using them around 2 years ago: https://github.com/rcarmo/raspi-cluster Using Pi 3 boards would quadruple the number of cores and yield a 600% increase in thanks to the slightly faster default clock rate...
They're not actually trying to build a high-powered computing cluster, just demonstrate how one works.
Neither of them is really high-powered, believe me. :)
But using one with old B boards could be excruciatingly slow at times, which is why I just had to upgrade mine - it’s since become a lot more productive in the sense that my tests take around 5 minutes instead of a whole hour :)
Re: Tiny Titan
#9More descriptive title, e.g. ‘Tiny Titan, a $1,000 classroom supercomputer’ would be helpful.
How does this cost $1,000? The budget is clearly not being used efficiently. The only computing part, the 9 RPi's are 315$ all together. So what, 685$ of plastic and accessories. Hmm....
30 bucks per USB LED Light, 15 bucks per USB cable... they don't choose cheap components.
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#10Why not just use virtual machines to sub out the RPis? Without the curriculum, it's not clear what they're trying to teach here. Assembly? Networking? Administration of the RPis?
the fact that it looks really cool likely has surprisingly strong effects on student motivation and work/attention levels, leading to more learning, which is the sole target here