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		diminish on May 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Raspberry Pi Thinks It's a Mainframe What about a data center, consisting of millions of raspberry PIs?

ConstantineXVI on May 15, 2012 | [–]

Close: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...

arethuza on May 15, 2012 | | [–]

Are there any scenarios where this would be preferable to virtualization?

av500 on May 15, 2012 | | [–]

If you are an ARM shareholder

timthorn on May 15, 2012 | | | [–]

The Calxeda solution offers very much better power density for certain compute workloads.

Ecio78 on May 15, 2012 | [–]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJPFSNu_QNs

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