One of the employees engaged in the development of software for the popular social network Twitter , has created a supercomputer at home, whose performance was 208 gigaflops.
According TheVerge, this figure exceeds 17 times the performance of existing commercial processors. For the production of a supercomputer to its creator Brian Guarrasi (Brian Guarraci) took eight boards Parallella, for which creation two years ago on the resource Kickstarter developers have collected 900 thousand dollars.
In addition, the creator took two mini-PC from Intel, each of which is equipped with 16 gigabytes of RAM and include a 120-gigabyte hard drive.
The cost of the supercomputer was $ 2,500. When this card Parallella are $ 800, and mini-PC - $ 1,000.
Design supercomputer simultaneously similar and one of the first Cray-1 supercomputer, released in 1976, and a new cylindrical Mac Pro. In this performance of the device is sufficient for treatment of serious parallel computing.