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Tschernobyl ?
 
It's actually Prypiat which is just 4 km from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant while Chernobyl itself is 18 km away. The fair should have opened at May 1st 1986, but the city had to be evacuated at April 27th.
 
Oh noes, ponies in this thread! :p <--that signifies a JOKE, everyone.
 
http://www.howtogeek.com/124323/super-computer-built-from-raspberry-pi-boards-and-lego-bricks/

64 Raspberry Pi micro computers chained together to make a 64-core super computer held together by Lego bricks.



It was only a matter of time before someone chained together dozens of Raspberry Pi boards into a serviceable super computer; read on to see how a team of Southampton scientists built a 64-core machine using them.

Image courtesy of Simon Cox and the University of Southampton.

From the University of South Hampton press release:
Professor Cox comments: ?As soon as we were able to source sufficient Raspberry Pi computers we wanted to see if it was possible to link them together into a supercomputer. We installed and built all of the necessary software on the Pi starting from a standard Debian Wheezy system image and we have published a guide so you can build your own supercomputer.?

The racking was built using Lego with a design developed by Simon and James, who has also been testing the Raspberry Pi by programming it using free computer programming software Python and Scratch over the summer. The machine, named ?Iridis-Pi? after the University?s Iridis supercomputer, runs off a single 13 Amp mains socket and uses MPI (Message Passing Interface) to communicate between nodes using Ethernet. The whole system cost under ?2,500 (excluding switches) and has a total of 64 processors and 1Tb of memory (16Gb SD cards for each Raspberry Pi). Professor Cox uses the free plug-in ?Python Tools for Visual Studio? to develop code for the Raspberry Pi.

One our favorite components of the project, the programming handiwork that binds all the Pi boards together aside, is the LEGO casing. It?s great that Professor Cox?s elementary school age son James played such a large role in creating the modular LEGO-based server racks; he?s definitely a budding geek and future engineer in the making.
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For more information about the project, including instructions on building your own Raspberry Pi-based super computer, hit up the link below.

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Judging by that, my music taste appears to be rather southern.

In that case, high house prices and not pronouncing scone as "scon" FTW! :p
 
Careful though; most of the 'London & South East' ones will be from London and not Kent and Sussex. Not much good comes from the South East <_<
 
Since when did the midlands extend to the east coast??
 
East enders refers to the eastern part of London, specifically North of the River (Thames) and there is no coast near them really, only the Thames and a bit further down the Thames Estuary.

I beleive you are correct and they were/are from the Midlands - possibly the East Midlands where some of the confustion may lie.

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