The farm is still running and still doing Einstein BRP4 work. I tried the Asteroids@home work but they have a problem with their app missing some optimizations that make them take longer than before and they make the Pi's run hotter. The farm consists of:
2 x Pi5 (4GB) as support nodes.4 x Pi5 (4GB) as compute nodes.
24 x Pi4 (8GB) as compute nodes.
We're in winter at the moment in Sydney, Australia so the farm is running 24/7 at the moment. The farm is currently on 36,094,879 credits with a recent average of 42,759 credits.
As mentioned in previous posts I would like to update the farm to all Pi5 nodes, however the Edge Cluster that I use for the Pi4's doesn't support them. There has been no news from BitScope regarding Pi5 support.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a Pi6 coming soon as the Raspberry Pi foundation have updated the Compute module 5, Pi500 and Pi5 to all use the BCM2712 as well as releasing a Pi5 with 16GB of memory.
With the fake numa node settings it would appear recent Rpi OS updates have been automatically enabling it. While I tried it on the Pi4's I didn't notice any advantage for them, but it certainly make a difference with the Pi5's.
