Mateusz Kaczanowski Personal Blog
A long while ago, I published a few posts describing my home cluster setup. It felt like a great achievement at the time, but truth to be told, the physical layout wasn't portable, and that caused me a lot of trouble during the last move...
Power consumption undoubtedly is one of the most important factors we look at today. Whether it's your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or machine in the datacenter, the goal is the same. You want to get the best possible performance for the lowest power cost.
Kernel, compiler, bsps, libraries, examples, userspace daemons... Because no one wants to deal with this alone, hardware manufactures (or community) often release pre-configured/customized OS distribution...
Making use of hardware is much harder than owning it, especially when we speak about uniquely designed SBCs such as Parallella. Why? Because problems that can be solved best with parallel computing are hard...