AFAIK typical SBC CPUs are not heavily optimized for floating point; there is an order of magnitude difference compated to an x86. I don't understand how a cluster would make economic sense, even for tasks that parellelize well (and then there is the network overhead).
Best, Tamas On Sun, Dec 13 2015, cdm <[email protected]> wrote: > while this SBC would represent a substantial improvement > over the Pi systems currently in market, i suspect that the > most notable aspect is the price ... > > generally, as the price points come down, clusters become > much more feasible ... > > parallelism is next.
