A Mini Supercomputer That Would Fit On Your Desk

LAVAL, Quebec - Sept. 5, 2014 - PRLog -- Thanks to the growth of mobile technology, hobbyists have access to development boards such as RaspberryPi , to share new findings or show off their hacking skills. Those who thought one board was not enough, accepted the challenge to connect multiple boards running in tandem. It can look pretty awesome, but imagine all those unnecessary power adapters and cluttered network cables.

Like most development boards similar to the RaspberryPi, Rockhopper (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/884048325/worlds-smallest-datacenter) - is scalable up to 8 credit card size servers which can be inserted into a chassis that interconnects to a high speed backplane powered by a single adapter. A single board includes 8 times more cores and 10 times faster network speed compared to RaspberryPi.

Rockhopper Features:
Octa-Core big.LITTLE CortexTM-A15/7 - Each node come equipped with a cutting edge 8 core ARM based processor with Low-power CoolflexTM power management architecture.
DDR3 SODIMM memory - Each node comes equipped with a single DDR3 memory slot that can accept up to 8GB SODIMM modules.
Hard Drive SATA storage - Chassis can handle up to 8 storage devices (2.5" HDD and SSD) SSD storage can run at high peeds using our SATA III controller.
High Speed network - A high throughput network is the key to server performance. Our nodes come with a dedicated 1GBe controller to handle network load.
Bare metal appliance - Each node comes equipped with a Micro SD controller, allowing the users to configure and optimize nodes to run on minimal resources to tackle on big tasks.
Backplane interconnection - A custom backplane that will minimize the clutter of SATA, power and network cables while maintaining a reliable and low latency interconnections between nodes.

Raspberry Pi development boards will be able to connect to the Backplane. More details coming soon...

Clusterbit (http://www.clusterbit.com/) consists of two techies that build their own mini supercomputer at home and ran a series of Enterprise level solutions and scenarios that will accommodate users. The price for the Early Bird Rockhopper, starts at $299. Using the same guides as well as codes similar to RaspberryPi, you can run multiple tests on an open source platform that supports Android and many Linux Distributions such as Ubuntu.

They recently ran Hadoop on their prototype, to process large data sets. Check out the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpeJ8zzom8E),



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