san diego supercomputer center from games to science: building a raspberry pi cluster for...

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From Games to Science:Building a Raspberry Pi Cluster for

Visualization and Teaching

Rick WagnerPh.D. Candidate

HPC Systems Manager

SDSC Industry Partners ProgramWebinar SeriesJanuary 15, 2014

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Why?

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Growth of Distributed Computing

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Growth of CommodityParallel Architectures

Multi-core processors

GPUs

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But, Lack of Learning Opportunities

Portion of UCSD’sCSE Undergrad Catalog

CSE 160: Introduction to Parallel Computing

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Raspberry Pis & MiniMe

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Raspberry Pi

What is a Raspberry Pi?

“The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It is a capable little computer which can be used in electronics projects, and for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.”

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation

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MiniMe

15 LCD panel OptIPortal built for the Ocean Observatories Initiative

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Let’s Build!

https://plus.google.com/+RickWagner/posts/BvuXPRoDuZd

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Project #1: Parallel Pong

http://sdsc-sandbox.blogspot.com/2013/04/parallel-pong-on-raspberry-pis.html

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Project #2: Hybrid Game of Life

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Research Experience for High School

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SC13

http://bit.ly/1j7JfxO

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SC13

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Other Activities & the Future

• Volunteers• Interns• Visual Arts Class• Demos

• Classes• Sustainability

http://sdsc-sandbox.blogspot.com/