2014/12/30 by James J. Cusick, James Cusick, William Miller +8
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multimedia Communication and Technology #Parallel #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC) #cs.DC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1501.00039
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openalex publication_date 2014/12/30 · arxiv created 2015/01/05 · arxiv updated 2015/01/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In recent years development in the area of Single Board Computing has been\nadvancing rapidly. At Wolters Kluwer's Corporate Legal Services Division a\nprototyping effort was undertaken to establish the utility of such devices for\npractical and general computing needs. This paper presents the background of\nthis work, the design and construction of a 64 core 96 GHz cluster, and their\npossibility of yielding approximately 400 GFLOPs from a set of small footprint\nInSignal boards created for just over 2,300. Additionally this paper discusses\nthe software environment on the cluster, the use of a standard Beowulf library\nand its operation, as well as other software application uses including Elastic\nSearch and ownCloud. Finally, consideration will be given to the future use of\nsuch technologies in a business setting in order to introduce new Open Source\ntechnologies, reduce computing costs, and improve Time to Market.\n Index Terms: Single Board Computing, Raspberry Pi, InSignal Exynos 5420,\nLinaro Ubuntu Linux, High Performance Computing, Beowulf clustering, Open\nSource, MySQL, MongoDB, ownCloud, Computing Architectures, Parallel Computing,\nCluster Computing\n