I want to document this project, as it is one of my favourite projects to date. This took place about 4 years ago while I was working at the
Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC).
One of ICHEC's projects at the time was creating demonstration for the
BT Young Scientist Exhibition to explain the use of parallel computing. I volunteered to build a Raspberry Pi cluster for this, along with a parallel demo application called
Conway's Game of Life. The (very old) code can be found
here, and more details about the simulation can be found in
the official handout.
The best part of the project was building the cluster. My design placed the 8 Raspberry Pi's into the legs of a plexiglass enclosure shaped like the pi symbol. I also wrapped ethernet cables in colour electrical tape to give them distinct colours, and added several strands of
EL Wire to make it glow.
Here are a couple of photos of the cluster and build process.
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| Glorious PICHEC |
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| The master plan, made using Google's Ketchup. |
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| Setting up the networking, and adding accent tape. |
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| Getting graphics running. |
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| I still have this shirt! |
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