Progess as of 28th of July

Current status
Marks Rpi Cluster continues to run 24/7. The cluster currently has 12 Pi3B+ and 4 Pi3B's all doing Einstein BRP4 work.

The cluster is up to 6.09M credits for Einstein with a recent average of 7,735 credits per day.


Raspbian Buster rollout
As I mentioned in my previous post I have started updating the cluster from Raspbian Stretch to Buster (the current release). I have done 12 out of 16 compute nodes. The last four are in a difficult access location. I have also done 1 of the 2 support nodes.


Pi4 update
The two Pi4 model B's are still on back-order with an ETA of September. These will become the support nodes. On the same order are two USB C power supplies and two official cases. I have also ordered Noctua 40mm fans which have a higher airflow than the current ones.

14th of July

As mentioned in my previous post the Raspberry Pi foundation released the model 4 B along with a pre-release version of Debian Buster. Buster got released by Debian on the 6th of July.

I put Raspbian Buster on an old Pi 1 model B because it wasn't doing anything. As I run the Pi's headless (no screen and keyboard) it looks the same as before. They've had a couple of updates to the kernel since the initial Raspbian Buster release. Its painfully slow doing these on the model B.

Now that things have settled down I am progressively upgrading the compute nodes (4 Pi3's and 12 Pi3B+) to Buster. This is time consuming as I clean install each one rather than upgrading them.