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Henk
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Posted: 03:33am 25 Nov 2015

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Hi All,

I would like to share a little project of mine. I made a slow

parallel computer with 80 Micromites as slaves and 1 Maximite as the master. Just for fun but it works in a nice way. If you are interested you can read all about it on http://www.zapptronics.com/diy-parallel-computing/

I just finished the website and I hope you can read the english on the website because it is not my native language

Have fun and maybe you are inspired to add to this project.

Henk Verbeek
Netherlands

Edited by Henk 2015-11-26

kiiid

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Posted: 03:55am 25 Nov 2015

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I can only say... wow!

How did you optimise the programs for multiprocessing?

http://rittle.org

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Henk
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Posted: 04:06am 25 Nov 2015

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Well I don't think the program is very optimized

. I have just made it to prove the concept of parallel processing with Micromites. The code can be much better because there are some delay's in it to let I2C function work oke. I think maybe with another kind of calculation (one with takes a longer time per node to come up with an answer)it works better. On the other hand the Maximite as a master is probably not the right choice because it cannot plot faster then it does. It has to take all info from 80 nodes and do something with it. So there are a few bottlenecks but now the cluster is finished I am going to find out what more I can use it for

RonnS
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Posted: 04:39am 25 Nov 2015

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... wow very impressive ...

Ron

viscomjim
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Posted: 05:02am 25 Nov 2015

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Henk, VERY IMPRESSIVE! What a great job you did.

retepsnikrep

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Posted: 10:00am 25 Nov 2015

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Brilliant but I can't help thinking of this.

Adding the sound and lighting effects would be great..

10 points if you know what it is, and what it is from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsmf6fBn5I

Does yours contain Tarriel cells?

Gen1 Honda Insights.

kiiid

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Posted: 10:11am 25 Nov 2015

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My guess would be Orac from the Blake's...

EDIT: ah... just ran the video. It reveals it there... So my guess was pointless.Edited by kiiid 2015-11-26

http://rittle.org

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Henk
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Posted: 01:45pm 25 Nov 2015

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Thanks for the reactions

And Ah Yes Blakes Seven they also broadcasted two seasons of it over here in the Netherlands. It was a nice serie. But I always thought that computer was a bit of an odd construction which did not look as a real computer

Edited by Henk 2015-11-26

geraldfryjr

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Posted: 06:11pm 25 Nov 2015

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Excellent !!!!!!

This is exactly something that I had in mind for the PIC32's!!!

Thanks for Sharing!!

jer

Keep on DIYin' !!!

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