Beowulf.1 Powered by Computes.io Supercomputer

This weekend I created a four Raspberry Pi (16 core) Beowulf cluster powered by computes.io! Beowulf clusters are defined as:

a computer cluster of what are normally identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with libraries and programs installed which allow processing to be shared among them. The result is a high-performance parallel computing cluster from inexpensivepersonal computer hardware.

Each Raspberry Pi is running a computes.io supercomputer worker subsystem. Raspberry Pi 2s are quad-core Linux computers. Each core is running a dedicated computes.io process. Each process connects to the computes.io cloud-based supercomputer. Distributed “kernels” can run JavaScript-based jobs across all of the connected cores on the platform.

I’m still in the process of defining computes.io. It has elements of:

• Polymorphic computing
• Quantum computing
• Supercomputing

These kernel jobs could be targeting cyber anti-terrorism, law enforcement password/message cracking, cancer research, protein folding, etc.

Here’s a brief demo:

You can build your own computes.io beowulf supercomputer by following our instructions on GitHub. In the mean time, let me know if you have a use case that you would like to test on the computes.io platform…