Progress as of 26th of May

Einstein@home progress as of 26 of May 2019

The cluster continues to run 24/7. Currently it has 12 Pi3B+ doing Einstein BRP4 work and another 4 Pi3B's doing Seti work. I'll be switching the Pi3B's back to Einstein in a short while.

The cluster is up to 5.6M credits for Einstein with a recent average of 7,354 per day.

14th of April

In re-reading my last post I didn't actually mention how much progress Marks Rpi Cluster had made.

For Einstein the cluster is up to 5,280,000 credits at the moment. They give 62.5 credits for each valid work unit returned. Its currently averaging 7,117 credits which works out around 117 work units per day.

Progress as of 31 March

Einstein@home progress as of 31 March 2019:

This last fortnight the cluster has been on and off. There were a few warm days where it was off but for the most part its been running 24/7.

The 12 Pi3B+ nodes have been running Einstein BRP4 work and the 4 Pi3B nodes have been doing a mix of both Seti and Einstein. They are currently back on Seti.

Einstein@home added a new beta app which confused their scheduler so all the Pis were requesting work and getting told there wasn't any - Even though the server status page said there were 10,000 work units available. I hadn't changed anything so I assumed it was a project issue. I set the Pi3B+ nodes to No New Work overnight and allowed the Pi3B's to do Seti work. The following day I enabled work fetch on the Pi3B+ nodes and they all managed to pick up work.

Add some older Pis

Adding some more nodes
Now that I have a bit of room I have added the prototype Pi^4 case back into the cluster. Its got 4 x Pi3B's which are a little slower than the 3B+ but can still crunch numbers. It took a little time to get them updated to the latest Raspbian and to reconfigure the router.

At the moment I have it running Seti work which I might leave it on for a week or so before moving it back to Einstein. The first batch of Seti multi-beam work units took 20 hours to complete.

That brings the cluster up to:
4 x Pi3B nodes
12 x Pi3B+ nodes


Other news
I was hoping the Raspberry Pi foundation might announce a new model Pi but it seems they just rounded out the existing models and it will probably be next year before we see a new model. That means I might as well order the additional 12 Pi3B+'s that I need to complete the Bitscope Blade Rack.