Oracle shows ‘supercomputer’ with 1060 Raspberry Pis

Oracle will showcase a cluster of 1060 Raspberry Pi 3 B+ singleboard computers at its Oracle Code One 2019 conference. The manufacturer appears to have developed the system for demonstration purposes.

Oracle demonstrated the Raspberry Pi Supercomputer during Oracle Code One 2019 in a hall with arcade cabinets, Serve The Home discovered. The Raspberry Pi 3 B+s are housed in a 2U rack server cabinet and connected via 48-port Ubiquiti UniFi switches with an SFP+ 10GbE uplink.

The Raspberry Pis are powered by USB power supplies. Power-over-Ethernet was not an option according to Oracle due to the heat and power production combined with the additional cost of PoE HATs for the Raspberry Pis.

The system is connected to a storage server, a 1U system from Supermicro with Intel Xeon CPU, which takes care of booting the single-board computers. The cluster runs Oracle Autonomous Linux and Java.

It is unknown what the company’s plans for the Raspberry Pi Supercomputer are. It was probably developed for demonstration purposes only, especially for Oracle Autonomous Linux.

Oracle Raspberry Pi Supercomputer. Photo: Serve The Home