sudo apt-get install arduino-- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Diego Maniacco (Südtiroler Informatik AG - Informatica Alto Adige SpA) | Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol - Provincia autonoma di Bolzano - Alto Adige | Tel +39 0471 566 159 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On 19/11/2013 11:52, Chris Mair wrote:
Re: [Lugbz-list] What about a local "Raspberry Pi User Group" ? > On 2013-11-19 10:01, Ingo Larch wrote:
>> sounds very interesting to build up a small group. However, I think it
>> could be open for other "smart objects" too (like Arduino) and not
>> just limited to the Raspberry Pi.
>
> Am I smelling new flame wars? Raspberry Pi vs. Arduino ;-) Like in the
> good old times of GNU/Emacs vs. VI(M)? :-)
I don't think so. The comunity around (the original, microcontroller based)
Arduinos are more hardware/soldering/tinkering/artsy kind of people.
The Rasperry Pi people are more into home servers, media servers,
install-Linux-everywhere people.
... and vi won, anyway ;)
What the Unibz did, is IMHO a bit different. They made that cluster
mainly for teaching about distributed programming and stuff (if I get
the scope of the project correctly), so it has a much more software
kind of purpose. I don't know if that fits with the other two comunities,
I guess not so much.
Even if the Rasperry is in there, they would fit more into a
distributed computed, HPC comunity. It is true that the cluster
is not really competitive, but I think it is a very nice simulation
of a larger cluster. While a single Xeon server could probably beat
BOBO, the many Rasperry boards introduce the overhead of code distribution
and comunication that is the effectivly the hard part in disctributed
computing. So basically I'm sure it is a very nice thing to test
distributed algos.
If somebody is interested in some sort of comunity around HPC I'd
like to join - still I guess this is even more exotic than the
other two comunities mentioned above :(
Bye,
Chris.
PS: are we sure that we should not write in Italian, are there really
that many people here that don't at least read Italian? Maybe we should
do a poll?
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