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Supercomputer from Legos and Raspberry Pi's

Supercomputer clicked together from Legos and Raspberry Pi's | Crave - CNET


"How do you turn a 700MHz mini system into a supercomputer?
You use 64 of them and mount them in a rack made out of Legos.

It took a team of computer scientists from the University of Southampton in the U.K., led by Professor Simon Cox, to build the supercomputer. Named Iridis-Pi, the system cost just over $4,000 to put together."

Hadoop: Scalable Infrastructure for Big Data

Excellent presentation @ InfoQ, an overview of Hadoop.

Hadoop: Scalable Infrastructure for Big Data:
"Parand Tony Darugar overviews Hadoop, its processing model, the associated ecosystem and tools, discussing some real-life uses of Hadoop for analyzing and processing large amounts of data. "