Hardware
Five Raspberry Pi boards, power supplies, an eight-port Gigabit switch and a 3D-printed rack with removable trays.
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HARDWARE · SYSTEMS · PERFORMANCE
Projects
Our main hardware project is a five-board Raspberry Pi cluster. Below are the assembled rack, our current setup work and a few possible follow-up exercises.
FEATURED · ACTIVE BUILD
Five Raspberry Pis, one learning cluster.
We assembled the white rack with removable Pi trays and a vertical eight-port Ethernet switch. We're configuring the boards and preparing exercises for members.
QHPC HARDWARE LABRACK ASSEMBLY
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The assembled rack
Photos of the five-board build
Current setup work
Preparing boot media, connecting the boards through Ethernet, setting up SSH and planning repeatable workshop configurations.
Workshop goal
Let members bring up a small Linux cluster themselves, troubleshoot it and run introductory distributed jobs.
POSSIBLE NEXT EXERCISES
What we could try next
These are possible student exercises, not projects we are claiming to have completed.
Run a scheduler on our Pi cluster
Configure the nodes and compare manual workload execution with jobs submitted through Slurm.
Measure memory and CPU performance
Run a benchmark under controlled settings, record results, and explain what limits performance.
Compare serial and parallel execution
Use OpenMP or MPI to see how communication, thread count and process placement affect runtime.
OPEN LEARNING
Want to help with the cluster?
Start with a published workshop, then contact the club about joining the hardware setup or a related performance experiment.