Progress as of 28th of May

This is where Marks Rpi Cluster is as of the 28th of May for Einstein@home. Total credit is 23,448,504 and recent average is 33,648 credits.

 

 

As you can see I restarted the cluster around 60 days ago, credit went up and for the last 40 days or so its been fairly steady with a few bumps as I allocate some of the cluster to Asteroids@home work.

 

Cluster make up
As of the 28th of May the cluster is made up of:

3 x Pi4 (2GB) as support nodes
24 x Pi4 (8GB) as compute nodes

There isn't any special software handling the work. Each compute node is running an instance of BOINC which downloads work units, runs the project science application and returns the results.

7th of April

Marks Rpi Cluster continues to run 24/7. The 24 compute nodes are busy doing Einstein BRP4 work as well as the occasional Asteroids@home work units. I prefer the BRP4 work as its somewhat quicker (3  hours) compared to Asteroids (10 hours). I think the Einstein@home work might be more useful as they are looking for Pulsars whereas Asteroids@home are plotting the shapes of asteroids.

Debian have announced they will be releasing their next version of the operating system, code named bookworm, in June. We will have to see how long it takes the Raspberry Pi foundation to upgrade to it, however as I mentioned in my 27th of April post the foundation have already switched to using the 6.1 Linux kernel (Debian will switch to 6.1 with the bookworm release). One difference I have noticed is ntp is no longer available in bookworm, it installs ntpsec instead.