Raspberry Pi HPC Computing

Recently I acquired a Raspberry Pi 4 and decided to build a tiny computer cluster out of it. The goal is to do play around a bit with parallel computing technology. Some of the things that I will try out are

• MPI in Fortran

• Coarray Fortran

• Parallel computing with julia

The Hardware

The cluster consists of the following parts (see image above).

• 1 Raspberry 4 Model B (2GB) equipped with a 16GB MicroSD Card

• 1 Cluster HAT v2.5

• 4 Raspberry Pi Zeros W (each with a 16GB MicroSD Card)

• A pretty case and some cables

The Setup

The software for the cluster is available here. I chose the full cbridge variant which is Debian based. Additionally I enabled SSH and rdp, so that I can attach the cluster to my network and access it from my main machines at home.

@online{raspberrypi,
  author   = {Hoeltgen, Laurent},
  title    = {Raspberry Pi HPC Computing},
  date     = {2020-12-28},
  language = english
  url      = {https://www.laurenthoeltgen.name/content/blog/
              raspberrypi}
}