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| Everyone needs one of these |
The SDSC Sandbox is a space at the San Diego Supercomputer Center for UCSD undergraduates to develop learning materials for middle and high school students to learn parallel computing. Right now, we're focusing on the Raspberry Pi as the ideal tool for presenting a simplified model of a supercomputer. Trust us, it's a lot easier to build a cluster out of computers that weigh less than 1% of a typical server--and the network team is more than willing to part with 100BASE-TX switches.
Showing posts with label optiportable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label optiportable. Show all posts
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Parallel Pong on Raspberry Pis
When building a cluster computer, you need software to run on it. We thought that games would be a great demonstration and this lead us to embark on making the greatest game to ever come to distributed programming, pong.
Monday, April 8, 2013
UCSD Triton Day 2013
This Saturday, we moved the Sandbox into SDSC's lobby for Triton Day, UCSD's open house for newly admitted students. We set up the OptIPortable that we've been using to try out building tiled displays with Raspberry Pis, since Erik's code (details in a later post) has reached the working demo stage. We thought it would be cool to let next year's students see what kind of things they can find on campus. Some of them had worked on some serious electronics projects in high school, including underwater autonomous vehicle and a NanoRacks experiment.
| The SDSC Sandbox undergraduates (seated) working Raspberry Pis. From left: Amy, Alex, and Erik. |
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