Saturday, August 17, 2024

18th of August

Marks Rpi Cluster continues to run 24/7. The last few weeks saw two updates that interrupted processing. When applying updates that require a reboot I finish off the onboard work, apply updates and reboot. The Pi4's can take up to 3 and a half hours to finish off their work.

As usual we're running Einstein BRP4 work after I let the Pi5's have a week running Asteroids work. The Asteroids app seems to run fairly quick on the Pi5 relative to the Pi4's.

The cluster consists of:

4 x Pi5 (4GB) as compute nodes
1 x Pi5 (4GB) as support node
24 x Pi4 (8GB) as compute nodes
1 x Pi4 (2GB) as support node

I will likely swap out the Pi4 support node with a Pi5. It doesn't need the extra processing power as its a time server with a GPS, but all the Pi's hit it regularly so there is a fair bit of network traffic.