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ARM dev boards are generally based on toy-sized SoCs, though.

• rbanffy 9y ago
  They are still useful though. If you want to build an 7-node cluster of 2GB nodes on a single Mini ITX motherboard, it's even cheap. And requires no messy cables. https://www.pine64.org/?product=clusterboard-with-7-module-slots-include-one-free-sopine-module-during-promotion-period https://www.pine64.org/?product=clusterboard-with-7-module-s... and seven https://www.pine64.org/?product=sopine-a64 https://www.pine64.org/?product=sopine-a64
  • planteen 9y ago
    That's neat. I had heard of the PINE64 board but never the SOPINE. Curious, have you implemented any projects on this? Seems like it might be neat for testing a small distributed system.
    • rbanffy 9y ago
      I'm still building a cluster of Pi Zeros connected via a USB hub. Since I'm doing it on my spare time, it's not going fast. The point of clusters like this is not the speed, but the fact it's a cluster, with all the bottlenecks a cluster has. On USB it seems I'll have to route all traffic between the nodes via the cluster controller, which will also serve the shared NFS volume.
  • imtringued 9y ago
    Those SBCs are still stuck with using very outdated SoCs usually with a quadcore A53. Even a 7 node cluster of SOPINEs is going to be slower than an iPhone X.
    • rbanffy 9y ago
      That's not the point. The point is that it's a cluster of network-connected nodes that can run something like Kubernetes.