Impressive and cool. A cluster of 64 Rasberry Pi boards with networking and graphics capability. See the article below for what so many other people have done with this budget small factor board.
Source: ArsTechnica
Rasberry Pi SuperComputer
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Double precision floating point performance on the Rasberry is about 60 megaFLOPS, so the entire thing is about 25% as powerful as a single Ivy Bridge CPU core and 0.4% as powerful as a single Tahiti GPU.
Yes I can appreciate that Michael. They are underpowered because they are intended to be extremely cheap utility programmable boards. Although not suitable for HPC use cases I think the purpose of this video was to prove that HPC could be made accessible to the every day programmer at low cost and low barrier to entry leading perhaps to real world HPC hardware. For our needs it is, of course, completely worthless. :)