Turing Pi

While searching the web this week I came across a link to the Turing Pi/Pi2. See Turing Pi 

Basically the Turing Pi is an mITX board that you plug a number of Raspberry Pi Compute Modules (CM) into. It holds up to 7 CM, CM2, CM3 or CM3+ modules. The Turing Pi2 is a rework of that design to use the Compute Module 4 which is based around the Raspberry Pi4 SoC and has slots for 4 CM4 modules. This should be great for a cluster of Pis when its released.

While looking there I ran across a video clip from Jeff Geerling explaining what the Turing Pi is which then led me onto his other Raspberry Pi videos. I had heard of Jeff but wasn't aware he also has a YouTube channel. I had a look at his series called Ansible 101 on a Pi cluster which I will try soon. See Ansible 101

 

In other Raspberry Pi news last week they introduced the Pi400 which is a reworked Pi4 built into a Raspberry Pi keyboard. All the connectors are at the back of the keyboard. Jeff has a video where he does a tear down on a Pi400. Unlike the Pi4 model B its clocked at 1.8Ghz (the Pi4 model B is 1.5Ghz) and has a large heatsink spread across the width of the keyboard. I expect this means we will see a Raspberry Pi4 model B+ soon.

8th of November

The cluster is a bit run down at the moment. That is one of my Pi^4 cases with 4 x Pi3 in it is off with the 3D printing place so that leaves six of the Pi3's running. They still had some Einstein work on board when I powered them off, which will time out as Einstein has 14 day deadlines.

The 3 x Pi4 8GB are running Einstein and Rosetta. Rosetta ran out of work last week. This week Rosetta have plenty and the Pi's are concentrating on it to the point where it keeps swapping Einstein work out.


Update - Pi3 give away
I got a request for one of the Pi^4 cases that I am giving away, from the UK. Fortunately the person was willing to pay for shipping so one case with fans, 4 x Pi3, one USB charger and cables are on their way. Postage was pretty expensive at $54 AUD (slightly more than 20 GBP). Its status the last time I checked the AusPost website was "Processed by air carrier" which I assume means it got on a flight. Hopefully it will arrive in one piece.

I still have two more left.