Pi 3 Clusters (Hooking up mutiple sensors)

[ezgilly]

HI,
I new to the pi scene and I am working on a research project where I am using an X-box Kinect V2 and a thermal sensor (that is programmed in C#), an IR camera, and relate the data using a GPS NMEA strings. I currently don't know what software the IR uses, but I am trying to determine if using a pi 3 cluster would work for all these sensors and for the different languages. I was thinking that if i could do parallel programming with the Pi cluster it might work. At the end of the day i'm trying to do real time analysis and report my findings using a GUI display. If anyone has any thoughts that would be great. Other wise I was thinking of just building a mini ITX.

[ejolson]

An ITX motherboard with an Intel Core i5-3570K scores 96.5 gflops on the Linpack benchmark, whereas the Pi 3 scores 6.5 gflops. For comparison, this makes the Pi 3 about 50% faster than a 10-year-old single-core Pentium 4 but slower than the dual-core Pentium D. If the data analysis and signal processing requirements for the realtime display is more than the Pi 3 can handle, forget clusters and use the ITX system.