Thread 106335428

What do you do with these Raspi clusters

I have several raspberries around the house for automation. I don't see the point in clustering them.

>>106335428 (OP)
show it off on the internet. it's literally useless

>>106335428 (OP)
Europoor cope
Better to buy a x86 board in those cases, pi is good if you have small 24/7 services but even then you will need a better more reliable storage medium.
>>106335434
This
Just seems pointless especially when one is enough to handle a ton of things without needing redundancy the biggest thing people need to worry about is backups and reliability

>>106335428 (OP)
make youtube videos about them
not really much else they're good for

>>106335441
Not for me I use mine for
>Notification server and redirect
>portainer manager
>search engine provider
>UPS control to shutdown my devices
I still have a fuck ton more I can fit on my 4b 4gb
These are helpful devices to handle "glue" aspects of your network

>>106335434
yeah my general rule is 3 raspberry pi's should be enough. one on permanent duty for some shit you need. one to use now and then for random shit, and the last one just in case the 2nd one shits the bed and you really need to use one for some shit

>>106335466
ye no doubt, have a few around. the cluster is pretty dumb tho no offense jeff

>>106335481
It is fucking retarded the data is what needs to be monitored, the price for one of these fucking things are too much to justify it.
I can't even justify anyone buying the 5 if they can find the 4 used near pre pandemic pricing

You reminded me I have pi pico sitting in a desk drawer. What the fuck can I do with this?
My old boss bought a bunch because he ignored us when we said they weren't suitable for what we needed.

>>106335494
ye 4 is where it's at, if you need more go x86

>>106335428 (OP)
obviously nothing since a cluster of potato computers is less powerful than a single average desktop computer.

>>106335509
low power shit where arduino is not enough?

>>106335428 (OP)
You disassemble them and use one or two Pis for other things while the rest sit in a drawer.

>>106335509
diy keyboard

>>106335466
Do you use heatsink/fan for your Raspberries?
I want to use my rp4 as a 24/7 web crawler/web scraper, but i'm afraid it might shit the bed if i do that without using a heatsink

>>106335900
Yeah it's ultra cheap to get a case I say you should

>>106335428 (OP)
Yest

>>106335428 (OP)
Homelab, learning about distributed computing, learning about k8s… have some imagination anon

You can shove them up your dick hole.

>>106335428 (OP)
Literally what is the point of doing any of this?
You want more power just build a fucking PC.
This is like the e-reader faggots who complain they don't have 60Hz+ color screens when fucking tablets exist...

>>106336382
>This is like the e-reader faggots who complain they don't have 60Hz+ color screens when fucking tablets exist...
backlight, anon.

>>106335519
This. Also clustering adds overhead to any workload and the Pis can barely run anything as they are, so what's the point? It's just jewtubers shilling their silly pi clusters and normies falling for it.

>>106335428 (OP)
make minipc shills mad, it's worth it even if just for that

>>106335428 (OP)
Literally a PR meme, you're better doing a VM cluster with a real pc.

The only cluster that made sense at 'small scale' were:
• pre-2000s when PCs were crap
• PS3 clusters
• Athlon II clusters for render farms
• GPU mining clusters

>>106338645
Don't forget Mac mini clusters

>>106338813
DELET THAT

>>106338813
I miss moot

>>106335434
This. fpbp

>>106337424
oled exists

>>106335428 (OP)
Boinc and seti

>>106335514
Need an uneven number though.

>>106335428 (OP)
What is the point of these clusters? You can have better perfomance and save money by using a 10gen Intel CPU.

>>106341160
Cluster means uptime because of redundancy.

>>106341160
If someone has to update freeBSD and Ghostscript, you don't have to shut down the whole site but instead keep the second server running.

>>106341160
6gen Intel CPU

>>106335428 (OP)

it could be hospital tv
it could be landline telephone center

>>106341246
>freeBSD and Ghostscript
I see what you did there

>>106341055
you can't see oled in direct sunlight

>>106341160
Learning mostly. Maybe simply having fun.
You could also argue a low power solution with redundancy as well, but for applications that need redundancy you don't need more than one or two extra.

Raspberry pi is pimarily a learning and hobby tool. Just let learn and have fun.

>>106335900
yes but you dont need
the models where the ram is on top of the cpu make any heat sink ineffective anyway

>Le Epic cluster of Raspberry Pi
>Less powerful than a single 8 year old Celeron

>>106345189
Indeed, it looks cool but the processing power is kinda weak

>>106338813
> also trips, check 'em

;_;

i wonder what he's up to nowadays

>>106341134
get the pi 3

>>106335428 (OP)
redundant DNS servers