Clupiter: a Raspberry Pi mini-supercomputer for educational purposes

Bibliographic citation

Alonso Rodríguez-Iglesias. María J. Martín, Juan Touriño (2024). Clupiter: a Raspberry Pi mini-supercomputer for educational purposes. In Proceedings of 2023 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) Exeter, United Kingdom, November 2023. Pages 2408-2413. IEEE Catalog Number: CFP23TRU-ART. ISBN: 979-8-3503-8199-3. ISSN: 2324-9013. https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom60117.2023.00338

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Abstract

[Abstract]: The main objective of this work is to bring supercomputing and parallel processing closer to non-specialized audiences by building a Raspberry Pi cluster, called Clupiter, which emulates the operation of a supercomputer. It consists of eight Raspberry Pi devices interconnected to each other so that they can run jobs in parallel. To make it easier to show how it works, a web application has been developed. It allows launching parallel applications and accessing a monitoring system to see the resource usage when these applications are running. The NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) are used as demonstration applications. From this web application a couple of educational videos can also be accessed. They deal, in a very informative way, with the concepts of supercomputing and parallel programming.

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