This is hard to explain. It all started as a joke. In our lab slang we use the word “raspini” (which has no real meaning in Italian) for referring to the Raspberry Pi. This word sounds very similar to a dialect word (raspèin) that is used in the Italian region in which we work to identify something that is stuck the throat, In other words, it is an irritated throat… and often the first symptom of a cold.

As soon as possible, We hope the complete the building and testing phases in the first months of 2013.

We're mainly interested in the scalability of distributed algorithms/mechanisms and in the design of fault-tolerant protocols. In other words, the CPU speed is not our main concern.