Interesting device

Jose said:
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Buy Turing Pi 2, mini ITX cluster board - for sale

The Turing Pi 2 is a 4-node mini ITX cluster board with a built-in Ethernet switch that runs Turing RK1, Raspberry Pi CM4 or Nvidia Jetson compute modules
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Not to be a detractor but these devices are un-interesting to me.

A ways back I bought a used AntMiner built with Beaglebone and it felt like a scams device.

What are the synergies to separate CPU boards? Is this a VAX nostalgia device?

I got this coming for my 'de-nebraed' Rock Pi 4's
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OK I see they are using RK3588 and that that is groovy.

What cracked me up is to see a PicoPSU in the ATX connector.
Why bother with all that if you are gonna use DC input anyway.
Meh. Nice I/O but I will pass for now.
 
Yeah, they're pricey. I wonder if you can have a mixture of different compute boards. How would that look to an OS?
 
Jose said:
How would that look to an OS?
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Exactly. And once you leave silicone the core interconnects become way slower...

Reflecting I like where they are going. You can start with 8 cores and add more if needed.
400 bucks for that is not cheap. But for an ITX board its not unreasonable.
Exactly how many lanes of PCIe (and what bus speed) for NVMe do you end up with is a question I have...

Also what about memory. You just add up what is on the modules? Is that handled by NUMA?
With memory controller on die and memory local on SOM that sounds fine but how do you leave the SOM and combine with other SOM without taking a huge hit.

This reminds me of the Antminer alot. It looked real good on paper...
 
Jose said:
I wonder if you can have a mixture of different compute boards.
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I would bet you a used Antminer S9 you can't.
I just don't see it having that level of logic.

BMC Intro and Specs | Turing Pi2 | Docs

BMC, or Baseboard Management Controller, is a specialized microcontroller that is built into the motherboard of a computer or server. It monitors the system's hardware and provides remote management capabilities, such as power control or temperature monitoring.The Turing Pi 2 board is equipped...
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This could be done with an appropriate node controller but this ain't that.
Simply a BMC it sounds like.
 
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