96-core ARM supercomputer using the NanoPi-Fire3

Re:96-core ARM supercomputer using the NanoPi-Fire3 by ElBarto on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:23AM (#18413057)

What's fascinating in that article is to see that a Raspberry Pi 3 has about 10% of the floating-point processing power of a Cray C90...

Cue the many forum questions: "I'm planning to use a Raspberry Pi to control a <simple-ish device>. Will it be powerful enough?"

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Re:96-core ARM supercomputer using the NanoPi-Fire3 by adrianN on Friday November 09, 2018 @05:03AM (#18413440)

The real question is "Will it be powerful enough even though I use a Desktop operating system and a software stack designed for programmer comfort rather than efficiency to control <simple-ish device>".

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Re:96-core ARM supercomputer using the NanoPi-Fire3 by geezerjay on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:50AM (#18413162)

Truth be told, due to today's wealth of computational resources, some very popular software stacks were not designed to be lean or efficient.

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