Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
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Re: Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
#2Today we are thrilled to announce the Turing Pi V2. The Turing Pi V2 is s compact cluster in a mini ITX form factor with 4 x cluster nodes, 2x mini PCIe (Gen 2) ports, 2x SATA (Gen 3) ports, and new Raspberry Pi compute modules 4 support.
The Turing Pi 2 cluster is architecturally similar to the AWS Graviton clusters. The CM4 processor uses the ARMv8 architecture. You can build images and applications for AWS instances of Graviton 1 and 2, host cloud native apps locally or at the edge and more.
Re: Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
#3I spent a bit of time testing the v1 board, and while it isn't without fault, it's the best SBC-based cluster project I've used (haven't personally tested the SOPINE Clusterboard though).
Since the CM4 is 2x-3x faster than the CM3+ in pretty much every aspect[1], I'd be very excited to be able to upgrade my Pi Dramble[2] 4x Raspberry Pi 4 model B cluster to a Turing Pi V2!
[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-compute-...
Re: Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
#4Today we are thrilled to announce the Turing Pi V2. The Turing Pi V2 is s compact cluster in a mini ITX form factor with 4 x cluster nodes, 2x mini PCIe (Gen 2) ports, 2x SATA (Gen 3) ports, and new Raspberry Pi compute modules 4 support. The Turing Pi 2 cluster is architecturally similar to the AWS Graviton clusters. The CM4 processor uses the ARMv8 architecture. You can build images and applications for AWS instanc…
For the mini PCIe, do you mean they will be PCIe 1x slots, or something like an M.2 connector?
And will it be set up where each board gets one of those slots (e.g. 2 boards get single PCIe, 2 boards get single SATA)?
Re: Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
#5I spent a bit of time testing the v1 board, and while it isn't without fault, it's the best SBC-based cluster project I've used (haven't personally tested the SOPINE Clusterboard though). Since the CM4 is 2x-3x faster than the CM3+ in pretty much every aspect[1], I'd be very excited to be able to upgrade my Pi Dramble[2] 4x Raspberry Pi 4 model B cluster to a Turing Pi V2! [1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/r…
Thank you. As always, your review of the new CMs is awesome!
Re: Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
#6Today we are thrilled to announce the Turing Pi V2. The Turing Pi V2 is s compact cluster in a mini ITX form factor with 4 x cluster nodes, 2x mini PCIe (Gen 2) ports, 2x SATA (Gen 3) ports, and new Raspberry Pi compute modules 4 support. The Turing Pi 2 cluster is architecturally similar to the AWS Graviton clusters. The CM4 processor uses the ARMv8 architecture. You can build images and applications for AWS instanc…
For the mini PCIe, do you mean they will be PCIe 1x slots, or something like an M.2 connector? And will it be set up where each board gets one of those slots (e.g. 2 boards get single PCIe, 2 boards get single SATA)?
m2 connector is something we are still experimenting with. The first two nodes are exposed to mini PCI express port, the third node is exposed to 2-ports 6 Gbps SATA controller. You can use the network file system within the cluster to access hard drives from other nodes.
Re: Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
#7Today we are thrilled to announce the Turing Pi V2. The Turing Pi V2 is s compact cluster in a mini ITX form factor with 4 x cluster nodes, 2x mini PCIe (Gen 2) ports, 2x SATA (Gen 3) ports, and new Raspberry Pi compute modules 4 support. The Turing Pi 2 cluster is architecturally similar to the AWS Graviton clusters. The CM4 processor uses the ARMv8 architecture. You can build images and applications for AWS instanc…
> The Turing Pi 2 cluster is architecturally identical to the AWS Graviton clusters.
Graviton2 uses Armv8.2-A, as opposed to the Armv8.0-A on the CM4. Graviton2's cores are "Neoverse" vs CM4's Cortex A73, which is also a significant difference. A lot of code will be portable, but these are significantly different cores.
Re: Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
#8PCIe switching would have been really interesting to see, even in a non-concurrent mode.
One also desperately wishes that multi-host network adapters had a low-end market. A 1 x 25Gbe connection shared between 6 hosts would be epic. Or if sharing the connection is too much, just a 4 x 2.5Gbe NIC chip would be acceptably interesting & useful to have. I forget, maybe the gbe is free on the Pi4's chip & this is more of a non-issue.
Re: Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
#9Are there more detailed characteristics of the ethernet switch?
Re: Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM
#10PCIe switching would have been really interesting to see, even in a non-concurrent mode. One also desperately wishes that multi-host network adapters had a low-end market. A 1 x 25Gbe connection shared between 6 hosts would be epic. Or if sharing the connection is too much, just a 4 x 2.5Gbe NIC chip would be acceptably interesting & useful to have. I forget, maybe the gbe is free on the Pi4's chip & this is more of…
PCIe switching would be awesome, for sure, but so far too costly. We want the Turing Pi 2 be cost friendly.