Note: I did not get paid for this review. I write reviews occasionally because I know there are educators who read my blog about using the Raspberry Pi
Happy summer folks!
My Raspberry Pi 4 CanaKits that were backorded months ago finally arrived, and I’ve been using those to build some remaining clusters for my students. Thanks to the chip shortage, my only option to get Pis were to buy the more expensive Raspberry Pi 4 starter kits, which are significantly more expensive than just a board and a power cable, and came with a lot of things I didn’t need or want.
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Note: this is a post I created in 2018. I got distracted by some other things and forgot to fully update it. I made some further updates when I discovered the issues in 2021. Sorry!
This is the second cluster system that I’m exploring this summer. In recent years a lot of commercial microcluster solutions have started popping up. Last post, I reviewed PiRacks. In this post, I will review Picocluster.
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Another summer, and I’m exploring building yet another cluster. Back in 2014 when I started designing my cluster materials, there weren’t a lot of great options for cases for SBC-based microclusters. So I (and Frank Blackmon, our department tech) designed some for the parallella and the raspberry pi. They were pretty great, and I’ve used them extensively for many clusters that I’ve built in the last four years. I’ve presented some of the cluster designs at SIGCSE back in 2015 and 2016.
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