Guy Tel-Zur's Blog

RaspberryPi , a $35 toy or the next disruptive technology and a possible building block for HPC ? This credit card sized board has a ARM11 processor and 512MB RAM. The board is powered via a micro USB connector. It has two built-in USB sockets, Ethernet and HDMI video. A schematic drawing of model B which I have can be found here . I installed  Raspbian  Linux, an optimized Debian version for Raspberry, on a 4GB SD card. A cool gadget for triggering thoughts about the future of computing. Enclosed below a few pictures I took, enjoy!

About four years ago I predicted in this blog the fall of Grid Computing and the rise of Cloud Computing (  http://telzur.blogspot.com/2007/10/end-of-grid-computing.html  ) Now I want to claim that Supercomputers as we know them today will not be the kind we will see in the future. I think that within a couple of years: 1. Most supercomputers will shift to the cloud (HPC Cloud). 2. The governance of X86 is not guaranteed: We already see the rise of GPGPUs and we will see more families of technologies being involved, e.g. Tegra and ARM, Reconfigureable Computing (RC) i.e. FPGAs, etc'. 3. Supercomputers won't be anymore General Purpose machines. They will be reconstructed as a Cloud Service ( Supercomputing as a Service ) from all the available technologies (see previous section) per single mission (program) in order to maximize the performance and minimize the consumed energy and cost. I decided to use the word mission because the word  task is u...