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[Idea] Cheap But Powerful Computing Cluster

I've always wanted a "supercomputer" or rather the feel-good feeling of saying that

"My computer has 20 cores and 5GB of RAM"
    - Timothy

And of course,

"It's not about the RAM, it's the core count that counts"
    - Timothy

You might be wondering why I would want such a computer. Well, first off, you're not my mom, and secondly, wouldn't it be great to be able to use such a powerful computer to do awesome stuff?

But hold up -- how am I going to go about building this cluster? Well, since buying 5 laptops is not a practical way of doing things (duh), we'll settle with something a less expensive and less space-consuming.

Of course I'm talking about the ARM-based Single Board Computers. Specifically either Orange Pis, NanoPis, or ODROIDs.

If we want to make full use of the computing power, we definitely need 64-bit CPUs, and fast RAM. Storage speed is usually not a problem in High Performance Compute Clusters (HPCC).

Now your question may be "What would you be able to achieve with a HPCC?"

I was wondering the same question as well when I was finding an excuse to build one. You see, my day job as computer forensic investigator can use some help from a HPCC.

Such a HPCC will be able to help me with tasks such as password cracking (yes, John The Ripper and Hashcat can run on HPCCs), quick hashing of large amounts of data, as well as performing byte level file recovery. All these tasks, while you can run them on Virtual Machines (I've tried that), can scale their performances with the amount of resources you provide them.

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