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Neat setup. An alternative would perhaps be a Pine64 Clusterboard with 7 SOPINE modules: https://store.pine64.org/product/clusterboard-with-7-sopine-compute-mod

Neat setup. An alternative would perhaps be a Pine64 Clusterboard with 7 SOPINE modules: https://store.pine64.org/product/clusterboard-with-7-sopine-compute-module-slots/ https://store.pine64.org/product/clusterboard-with-7-sopine-...

justinclift 6y ago
Be careful of that. Those Clusterboards seem like a nifty idea, but looking through their forum they seem to have a tonne of problems:. :( http://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=91 http://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=91 That being said, I haven't personally used one. (But might get around to it one day out of curiosity.)
Legogris 6y ago
I've been a bit curious about this and other multi-board CoM carrier boards like Turing Pi[0]. Have you used it and what's your experience? Like the author mentions, pre-4 Raspberry Pis gives sad throughput due to the shared bus; Rpi 4 would be much more suitable. There's also Odroid C4, Rockpi 4, Nanopi M4V2. [0]: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-cluster-episode-6-turing-pi-review https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-cluster-...
- daneel_w 6y ago
  No practical experience with any of these "cluster boards" yet, I'm afraid.
pengaru 6y ago
I cannot recommend doing business with pine64, their customer service is nonexistent. If you cancel your order, or need to get ahold of someone @ sales@pine64.org for any exception, in my experience you may as well shout at the nearest wall. - Someone out $165 spent on a cancelled pinephone order, no phone and no refund, complete radio silence.
- johntash 6y ago
  > - Someone out $165 spent on a cancelled pinephone order, no phone and no refund, complete radio silence. Hopefully you've asked your bank/creditcard to reverse the charge?
  - pengaru 6y ago
    Up until hours ago my pending PayPal claim seemed lost in a different form of silent purgatory, but the refund appears to have finally been authorized as of tonight. I ordered the phone on 5/12, cancelled the order and filed a PayPal "item not received" case on 6/26, escalated the case to a formal PayPal claim on 7/16 (under pressure from PayPal's "close or escalate" automated ultimatum), and as of now it appears the claim finally got refunded on 8/12. Not a single email response has ever been received from numerous attempts to contact sales@pine64.org throughout this total waste of time and frustration. They ignored requests for updates before I cancelled, seemingly ignored the cancellation, filed an "item shipped" update in the PayPal case on 7/8 despite my cancelling the order on 6/26. YMMV
- daneel_w 6y ago
  That's very unfortunate. I own 3 Pine64 products myself, my experience with their customer support has been great so far.

justinclift 6y ago

Be careful of that. Those Clusterboards seem like a nifty idea, but looking through their forum they seem to have a tonne of problems:. :( http://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=91 http://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=91 That being said, I haven't personally used one. (But might get around to it one day out of curiosity.)

Legogris 6y ago

I've been a bit curious about this and other multi-board CoM carrier boards like Turing Pi[0]. Have you used it and what's your experience? Like the author mentions, pre-4 Raspberry Pis gives sad throughput due to the shared bus; Rpi 4 would be much more suitable. There's also Odroid C4, Rockpi 4, Nanopi M4V2. [0]: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-cluster-episode-6-turing-pi-review https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-cluster-...

daneel_w 6y ago
No practical experience with any of these "cluster boards" yet, I'm afraid.

pengaru 6y ago

I cannot recommend doing business with pine64, their customer service is nonexistent. If you cancel your order, or need to get ahold of someone @ sales@pine64.org for any exception, in my experience you may as well shout at the nearest wall. - Someone out $165 spent on a cancelled pinephone order, no phone and no refund, complete radio silence.

johntash 6y ago
> - Someone out $165 spent on a cancelled pinephone order, no phone and no refund, complete radio silence. Hopefully you've asked your bank/creditcard to reverse the charge?
- pengaru 6y ago
  Up until hours ago my pending PayPal claim seemed lost in a different form of silent purgatory, but the refund appears to have finally been authorized as of tonight. I ordered the phone on 5/12, cancelled the order and filed a PayPal "item not received" case on 6/26, escalated the case to a formal PayPal claim on 7/16 (under pressure from PayPal's "close or escalate" automated ultimatum), and as of now it appears the claim finally got refunded on 8/12. Not a single email response has ever been received from numerous attempts to contact sales@pine64.org throughout this total waste of time and frustration. They ignored requests for updates before I cancelled, seemingly ignored the cancellation, filed an "item shipped" update in the PayPal case on 7/8 despite my cancelling the order on 6/26. YMMV
daneel_w 6y ago
That's very unfortunate. I own 3 Pine64 products myself, my experience with their customer support has been great so far.