Progress as of 31 March

Einstein@home progress as of 31 March 2019:

This last fortnight the cluster has been on and off. There were a few warm days where it was off but for the most part its been running 24/7.

The 12 Pi3B+ nodes have been running Einstein BRP4 work and the 4 Pi3B nodes have been doing a mix of both Seti and Einstein. They are currently back on Seti.

Einstein@home added a new beta app which confused their scheduler so all the Pis were requesting work and getting told there wasn't any - Even though the server status page said there were 10,000 work units available. I hadn't changed anything so I assumed it was a project issue. I set the Pi3B+ nodes to No New Work overnight and allowed the Pi3B's to do Seti work. The following day I enabled work fetch on the Pi3B+ nodes and they all managed to pick up work.

Add some older Pis

Adding some more nodes
Now that I have a bit of room I have added the prototype Pi^4 case back into the cluster. Its got 4 x Pi3B's which are a little slower than the 3B+ but can still crunch numbers. It took a little time to get them updated to the latest Raspbian and to reconfigure the router.

At the moment I have it running Seti work which I might leave it on for a week or so before moving it back to Einstein. The first batch of Seti multi-beam work units took 20 hours to complete.

That brings the cluster up to:
4 x Pi3B nodes
12 x Pi3B+ nodes


Other news
I was hoping the Raspberry Pi foundation might announce a new model Pi but it seems they just rounded out the existing models and it will probably be next year before we see a new model. That means I might as well order the additional 12 Pi3B+'s that I need to complete the Bitscope Blade Rack.