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I was the only one expecting to see a cluster with 100+ units?

by nzach 5y ago

theandrewbailey 5y ago
I expected a beefy GPU somewhere.
- geerlingguy 5y ago
  Still working on that... https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/#gpus-graphics-cards https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/#gpus-graphics-cards
Aeolun 5y ago
Nope, that was what caused me to click. If someone told me they stuck 4 $1000 disks in a PI I wouldn’t have bothered :/
- rasz 5y ago
  not even with a stupid face on a thumbnail? cmon its so clickable!!1
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- JKCalhoun 5y ago
  Seeing what a Raspberry Pi can do still has me clicking through.
  - Nextgrid 5y ago
    I mean, it could always do that. You can connect a ton of drives over USB (I think the device limit is 127). The question when it comes to RPi-powered NASes is whether it can do that well and the answer is as everyone expected: not really; the CPU is the bottleneck regardless of the underlying interface the drives connect over.
    - JeremyNT 5y ago
      These sorts of articles come up a lot on HN, where it's "I did <some mundane thing for any recent x86 PC> with a Raspberry Pi!" There's an odd fascination with this specific brand of hardware that I can never totally wrap my mind around. I guess it's probably an easy way for people to try out a Linux based computer with a minimal expenditure, and a launching point for new users to start trying things out. Of course, it's not like RPi has a monopoly on little low powered Linux computers either - there are plenty of alternatives even in that niche (e.g. from Pine64).
    - mbreese 5y ago
      That's always my question with these too. I want to know if the RPi can saturate a 1GbE connection, and really, even if the RPi can connect a bunch of SSDs, how well does it really use those resources -- and like you said, the answer is usually no. > Pi's bus being only Gen 2 and x1 means you're quite limited in terms of bandwidth
xdennis 5y ago
Here's a 1060 pi cluster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVcRQQ9PNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVcRQQ9PNw
- nzach 5y ago
  That's what I wanted to see! Thanks!

I was the only one expecting to see a cluster with 100+ units?

by nzach 5y ago

I was the only one expecting to see a cluster with 100+ units?

theandrewbailey 5y ago

I expected a beefy GPU somewhere.

geerlingguy 5y ago
Still working on that... https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/#gpus-graphics-cards https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/#gpus-graphics-cards

Aeolun 5y ago

Nope, that was what caused me to click. If someone told me they stuck 4 $1000 disks in a PI I wouldn’t have bothered :/

rasz 5y ago
not even with a stupid face on a thumbnail? cmon its so clickable!!1
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
JKCalhoun 5y ago
Seeing what a Raspberry Pi can do still has me clicking through.
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  I mean, it could always do that. You can connect a ton of drives over USB (I think the device limit is 127). The question when it comes to RPi-powered NASes is whether it can do that well and the answer is as everyone expected: not really; the CPU is the bottleneck regardless of the underlying interface the drives connect over.
  - JeremyNT 5y ago
    These sorts of articles come up a lot on HN, where it's "I did <some mundane thing for any recent x86 PC> with a Raspberry Pi!" There's an odd fascination with this specific brand of hardware that I can never totally wrap my mind around. I guess it's probably an easy way for people to try out a Linux based computer with a minimal expenditure, and a launching point for new users to start trying things out. Of course, it's not like RPi has a monopoly on little low powered Linux computers either - there are plenty of alternatives even in that niche (e.g. from Pine64).
  - mbreese 5y ago
    That's always my question with these too. I want to know if the RPi can saturate a 1GbE connection, and really, even if the RPi can connect a bunch of SSDs, how well does it really use those resources -- and like you said, the answer is usually no. > Pi's bus being only Gen 2 and x1 means you're quite limited in terms of bandwidth

xdennis 5y ago

Here's a 1060 pi cluster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVcRQQ9PNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVcRQQ9PNw

nzach 5y ago
That's what I wanted to see! Thanks!