One of Twitter's employees created a supercomputer at home

One of the employees involved in the development of software for the popular social network Twitter, created a supercomputer at home, whose performance was 208 gigaflops.

As reported by TheVerge, this indicator exceeds by 17 times the performance of existing commercial processors on the market. To produce a supercomputer, its creator, Brian Guarraci, required eight Parallella boards, two years ago, on the resource Kickstarter developers collected 900 thousand dollars.

In addition, the creator needed two mini-PCs from Intel, each of which is equipped with 16 gigabytes of RAM and includes 120-gigabyte hard drives.

The cost of the supercomputer was 2500 dollars. At the same time, Parallella cards cost $ 800, and mini-PCs cost $ 1000.

The design of the supercomputer is simultaneously similar to one of the first supercomputers Cray-1, released in 1976, and a new cylindrical Mac Pro. At the same time, the device's performance is sufficient to handle serious parallel computing.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/computers/odin-iz-sotrudnikov-twitter-sozdal-doma-superkompyuter.html.