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Ask HN: Raspberry Pi or Parallela Clusters use cases for normal people?
I've been having an itch to scratch on building a Raspberry Pi or Parallela cluster. I can't however figure out a use case to achieve.
Perhaps I could:
- use it to scale images to various sizes
- use it to encode movies to various formats for HTML5 compatibility (mp4, webm, ogv, etc)
For normal people (I am a c++ developer though) what are some other things that I could accomplish? OpenCL tasks? Ideas?
- ChrisGranger 12y agoI was really hoping to see BOINC projects that would take advantage of the Parallella's Epiphany coprocessor, but that hasn't materialized yet.
- jason_slack 12y agoThis seems interesting.
- lovelearning 12y agoFace recognition using OpenCV. On a single RPi, it's a hog, requiring all kinds of pipeline optimizations to get results in reasonable time. Combining concepts like SIFT with face recognition is impossibly slow. A cluster sounds like exactly the kind of thing that would help. Since the examples you've given are already related to image/video processing and since OpenCV is C++, you may find it a good fit. Put a camera on your doorstep, install your cluster, let it recognize your family members, and charm them with a welcome :)
- jason_slack 12y agoInteresting! I could put a large display in my window and as they show up display custom info for them :-)