Added some Pi5's

Marks Rpi Cluster continues to run 24/7.

Seeing as the Edge Cluster from BitScope isn't available for the Pi5 I purchased four Pi5's and associated bits to add them to the cluster.

4 x Raspberry Pi5 (4GB)
4 x Raspberry Pi Active Cooler
4 x Raspberry Pi5 USB-C Power Supply
5 x Sandisk 32GB High Endurance micro SD cards
1 x Power board with 8 outlets

I ordered one of the stackable acrylic cases from eBay as I couldn't find them available from the usual Rpi shops. They are just sheets of clear acrylic and a bunch of metal stand-offs. While I wait for the case I have them sitting loose on an old TV table. I need to buy some short network cables as I used a bunch of 2 meter ones and its like spaghetti junction at the moment. I had to get a power board (aka a power strip) due to all the power supplies. I had a spare 8 port switch which I used and the network cables.

You can see the four Pi5's just sitting on the table with their active coolers. Thats an 8 port switch on the top right with a Pi4 sitting on top of it. Is got an external HDD plugged in. On the bottom left are two more Pi4's. The one with the blue thing on top is a proxy server/Pihole machine and not part of the cluster. The blue thing is a Samsung T5 portable SSD. The Pi in the bottom left corner is a time server. The beige USB cable is plugged into a GPS.

Hopefully the stackable case will arrive soon so I can tidy things up. My aim was to get them going as quickly as possible. The delivery date on the case is supposedly the 29th of June.

The Pi5's are running Asteroids and Einstein work. They have shaved a few hours off for the Asteroids Period Search app. Einstein BRP4 on a Pi4 typically take 4 hours 40 minutes and on the Pi5 seem to be 2 hours 52 minutes (running 4 at a time).

The cluster now consists of:

4 x Pi5 (4GB) compute nodes.
24 x Pi4 (8GB) compute nodes.
Plus a Pi5 and two Pi4 as support nodes.