Turing Pi 2

I spent a bit of time testing the v1 board, and while it isn't without fault, it's the best SBC-based cluster project I've used (haven't personally tested the SOPINE Clusterboard…

IT's amazing device! For now i'm running a few RPi devices and i was dream about such device to put them in for more processing power.

I use mine to host some non-revenue-generating websites (they are super cheap for that purpose), and also for some ARM image builds that I integrate into my Docker/Kubernetes…

>>Besides academic uses to perhaps teach distributed systems on these are there any real world use cases for these clusters? A considerable amount of people is already assembling…

ThinkPad W530 fits the bill quite well. Broken screen puts it at around $100-150, $300 gets you fully working one. Less tyhan 4 CM4 modules, and what about Turing Pi 2 case?…

i often see people claim raspberry pi cheap but in reality it's not. a cluster like this is probably not cheap and performance wise, it's slower than, say an AMD x86 system.

Yes, but I would opt for the newly released HC4 if two drives were fine. If you are looking for four to five drives, I'm sure someone will make a PCB at some point that uses A…

Besides academic uses to perhaps teach distributed systems on these are there any real world use cases for these clusters?

Outside of doing it for the heck of it (which is a valid enough use case , IMHO), what practical use do you see out of this ? To me, it looks like I can do all of the same things…

Main use case might be doing whatever you would do on 10 year old laptop reused to be your home server. Similar performance, similar power usage.

Theoretically yes, but there seem to be only 2 PCIe (and probably x1 slots). And the interconnect will be quite slower (I suspect) btw. the modules. All those GPIO pins are gonna…

There is nothing in the schematics about multiple power supplies or battery backups, etc. If you are hooking up all 4 rpis to the same power source , might as well replace it…

But like, how? Mounting a volume in read/write mode on more than one machine is obviously going to corrupt it

I don’t understand the claim about 32GB RAM. The diagram shows slots for four RPi compute modules, each of which has 1GB RAM.

The new compute modules comes with up to 8 Gb of RAM. Here is a detailed review of new CMs https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-compute-module-4-review

Reading https://turingpi.com/turing-pi-2-announcement/, they have designed a “Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module (CM4)” with 8GB RAM.…

Rack mount case would be nice.

Rack mount form would be nice. Please do it!

PCIe switching would have been really interesting to see, even in a non-concurrent mode. One also desperately wishes that multi-host network adapters had a low-end market. A 1 x…

PCIe switching sounds nice, but let me tell you that it is a terrible nightmare on every level. Hardware: these PCIe switches are finicky as all get out; will it link up to your…

Long term request for the next Turing ( mixed CPU cards together - in a Box! ) + ARM cards + X86 cards + RISC-V cards

This is very neat. I’m sorry if I missed it, but have you announced pricing?

What's the price?

Stupid question, how do these 4 SoCs share the 2x SATA ports? Do you assign them to a specific processor somehow? Are the other machines booting off of PXE boot?

But like, how? Mounting a volume in read/write mode on more than one machine is obviously going to corrupt it

Out of curiosity, does the firmware in the Compute Module allow for PXE boot? Would be a neat way to handle corruptions of the SD / eMMC. Flick the power off through the Turing…

Main use case might be doing whatever you would do on 10 year old laptop reused to be your home server. Similar performance, similar power usage.

You could get an off-the-shelf x86 machine in the same form factor and run the cluster nodes in VMs, for instance. Maybe you could argue that four RPis on a network are more…

ThinkPad W530 fits the bill quite well. Broken screen puts it at around $100-150, $300 gets you fully working one. Less tyhan 4 CM4 modules, and what about Turing Pi 2 case?…

I spent a bit of time testing the v1 board, and while it isn't without fault, it's the best SBC-based cluster project I've used (haven't personally tested the SOPINE Clusterboard…

Today we are thrilled to announce the Turing Pi V2. The Turing Pi V2 is s compact cluster in a mini ITX form factor with 4 x cluster nodes, 2x mini PCIe (Gen 2) ports, 2x SATA…