[SGVHAK] mint box

[James McDuffie]

Just for you, instructions on how to set up your Raspberry Pi super
computer:

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/12/28/updated-instructions-for-creati
ng-a-raspberry-pi-supercomputer-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/





On Thu, Feb 7, 2013, at 09:58 AM, Doug Vargas wrote:

and then you could have fun setting them up with the cray distributed
operating system..sounds like a good project :D



On 02/07/2013 09:24 AM, Homan Chou wrote:

You could buy 10 raspberry-pies for that price.  :)  Load balanced
"super-computer" ?



On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:38 AM, James McDuffie
<[1]mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:

The Passmark score for the pro model's processor is: 762
To put that in prospective see their chart:
[2]http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+G-T56N

Seems a bit under powered considering you can get laptop which is about
twice as fast for around the same price, if not cheaper. You'd buy this
if were focused on setting up something silent and small.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013, at 12:29 AM, Doug Vargas wrote:

  idk how long it will last but there's a 20% off sale on the
  mint-box, a small form-factor pc running linux mint, my distro of
  choice. I'm thinking i'll get one as I need a cheap htpc :)
  [3]http://www.fit-pc.com/web/purchase/order-direct-mintbox/

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