Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board • Hacker News Board

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by leoc » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 1:42 PM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #19

leoc wrote: post #18

Another 64-bit ARM board out there: the Gigabyte MP30-AR0 http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#... http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/03/27/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-is-... . Unfortunately this one has limited distribution and $ask pricing.

That really frustrates me. I'm running a Dreamplug [1] as one of the main boxes on my network. The second USB port has died and it's really starting to show its age. The Gigabyte board would give me enough SATA ports and grunt to run a decent NAS - I think it'd give the C2750 from Intel a run for its money, power wise. Your linked article has a comment suggesting the Gigabyte board retails for 987 Euros. Jeebus. [1]:…

The dual 10GbE onboard is very nice, but it doesn't help to encourage optimism about the price ...

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by bitL » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 2:42 PM UTC

I am looking for something that can replace RPi2/Edison in my humanoid robot for real-time computer vision. Is Jetson TX1 a good candidate? Is it a drop-in replacement with a similar power envelope as RPi2/Edison, i.e. can be powered by a small LiPo battery?

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by wyldfire » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 3:04 PM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #19

leoc wrote: post #18

Another 64-bit ARM board out there: the Gigabyte MP30-AR0 http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#... http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/03/27/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-is-... . Unfortunately this one has limited distribution and $ask pricing.

That really frustrates me. I'm running a Dreamplug [1] as one of the main boxes on my network. The second USB port has died and it's really starting to show its age. The Gigabyte board would give me enough SATA ports and grunt to run a decent NAS - I think it'd give the C2750 from Intel a run for its money, power wise. Your linked article has a comment suggesting the Gigabyte board retails for 987 Euros. Jeebus. [1]:…

The dreamplug is probably closer to the pogoplug in feature set (and definitely cost!).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GM1Q1O/?&tag=bcgpfeed-2...

It's dirt cheap ($10-20), easy to load linux on [1], and it can be a simple file server, it can run minidlna, google cloud print [2], all kinds of stuff. 800MHz is not a screamer, but most simple I/O tasks like A/V streaming and printing are a walk in the park.

[1] http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-series-4

[2] http://geekvisit.com/hacking-pogoplug-mobile-adding-airprint...

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by rockdoe » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 3:16 PM UTC

unwind wrote: post #12

rwmj wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to Wikipedia it's 8 cores (big.LITTLE, so depending on the kernel and microarchitecture they might not all be usable at the same time): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_X1

Right ... that's weird, why isn't Nvidia's own Jetson-page more clear on this? Confusing.

~~You only get 4 usable at any given time. Either the big core runs (A57) or the LITTLE core (A53) runs.~~

Sounds like I'm mistaken.

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by rockdoe » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 3:17 PM UTC

Interesting that they seem to have dropped Project Denver in favor of A57 cores. I guess the issue is that big.LITTLE has big power advantages?

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by kctess5 » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 3:29 PM UTC

kampsy wrote: post #14

This is exactly what I need for my deep learning research. Iv been abusing my raspberry pi 2 with heavy neuro nets. Shame about the prise though. I will wait for the price to drop(hopefully).

Heavy neural nets on a rasp-pi? How does that work out?

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by Marat_Dukhan » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

leoc wrote: post #18

Another 64-bit ARM board out there: the Gigabyte MP30-AR0 http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#... http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/03/27/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-is-... . Unfortunately this one has limited distribution and $ask pricing.

The X-Gene 1 processor is made on 40nm process, so it is hardly competitive

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by kllrnohj » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 3:52 PM UTC

rockdoe wrote: post #25

Interesting that they seem to have dropped Project Denver in favor of A57 cores. I guess the issue is that big.LITTLE has big power advantages?

No, it's more that Denver sucked. A57 is just faster.

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by rockdoe » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:09 PM UTC

kllrnohj wrote: post #28

rockdoe wrote: post #25

Interesting that they seem to have dropped Project Denver in favor of A57 cores. I guess the issue is that big.LITTLE has big power advantages?

No, it's more that Denver sucked. A57 is just faster.

Got any references?

Re: Nvidia's Jetson TX1 ARM development board

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Post by ChuckMcM » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:23 PM UTC

bitL wrote: post #22

I am looking for something that can replace RPi2/Edison in my humanoid robot for real-time computer vision. Is Jetson TX1 a good candidate? Is it a drop-in replacement with a similar power envelope as RPi2/Edison, i.e. can be powered by a small LiPo battery?

It is an excellent candidate if money is no object.