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  • 64 Raspberry Pis + Legos = Supercomputer

    09/27/2012 12:11:15 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 19 replies
    Tomshardware ^ | Friday 21 September 2012 | Tuan Mai
    Computer engineers combine 64 Raspberry Pis and a Lego-built framework to create a DIY supercomputer.Earlier this year, Raspberry Pi lured the world in with the scent of a $35, linux-powered mini-PC. Since its release, the device has been used for a number of creative purposes. But one team of engineers at the University of Southampton has decided one Raspberry Pi just isn't enough. Instead, the group gathered up a whopping 64 mini-computers and combined them to create one gigantic, super Raspberry Pi.
  • Happy 40th birthday, Intel 4004!

    11/16/2011 10:34:32 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 10 replies
    The Register ^ | 15 November 2011 | Rik Myslewski
    On November 15, 1971, 40 years ago this Tuesday, an advertisment appeared in Electronic News for a new kind of chip – one that could perform different operations by obeying instructions given to it. That first microprocessor was the Intel 4004, a 4-bit chip developed in 1970 by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor in cooperation with the Japanese company Busicom [1] (née the Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation) for that company's adding machines. Busicom held the rights to the 4004 in 1970, but released them to Intel in 1971. Intel then offered the world's first processor for sale,...