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Just be aware that you’ll be stuck with wifi, or spending far more on ethernet adapters for them. If you want cheap with ethernet there’s other devices supporte
by drum55 9mo ago
Just be aware that you’ll be stuck with wifi, or spending far more on ethernet adapters for them. If you want cheap with ethernet there’s other devices supported by Arabian in the same price range which have ethernet. It’s fun for sure to have a huge number of very cheap machines, I have an old arm cluster made of Odroid boards for that purpose.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9mo agoI actually think I can run network over the USB connections to the head node anyways, though WiFi is also fine. Actually, you raise a good point: I should spend some time browsing the Armbian supported hardware list...
- reerdna 9mo agoWanted to reply to you directly also to increase the chance you see this because I think I had exactly the same intrusive thought as you, and actually built such a cluster recently. Would love to hear what you think: https://x.com/andreer/status/2007509694374691230/photo/1 https://x.com/andreer/status/2007509694374691230/photo/1
- yjftsjthsd-h 9mo agoI think that's amazing, surprisingly physically nice looking, and now you've gone and reminded me that Plan 9 is an option, which is kinda another tangent I didn't need:), but IIRC Plan 9 is really low resource so it might be a good fit (aside it lending itself to distributed computing). Have you written up the build anywhere?
- reerdna 9mo agoNo, not beyond what I already put in the twitter thread. I wanted to wait until I had some cool distributed software running on it too, but then I ran into trouble with the plan 9 wifi drivers for the rpi being unstable and so I'm still working on fixing that. It does serve as a great test bed for that purpose too, as with 8 nodes I can get much more reliable data about how often the driver gets stuck