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You will also find a large price tag. And probably inability to actually buy one alas.
You can get the Mirabox based on the Marvell Armada 370 for about £150, one-off. Includes dual 1GbE. Eg http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/All-MiraBox/MiraBox
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Yes but say I need to run a rails application with a DB on a Lan (less than 15 users), perfomance is not an issue (nginx + postgresql + puma uses less than 115 MB of RAM!) The only thing stopping you is SDCard's reliability! A friend of mine had two unrecoverably broken Kingston class 10 SDCards on the same RPi in 6 months. Bad luck maybe, but still I'd love to have something more solid to run applications without fe…
You can setup the SD card to run read only, and use a external usb hard drive when you need to write.
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Well, the existing RPi's GPU has 24 GFLOP capability, which is roughly the same as the GPU on the baseline i.MX6 (the Vivante GC2000). Now, a lot of that capability has historically been unavailable to RPi users, but they're slowly responding to pressure and opening up the GPU. But I also saw the headline and was hoping for some nice little GPU compute add-on the RPi. Oh well. I still think this is a very promising f…
It's pretty nuts that a tiny little thing like this has gigaflops of compute power.
I'll be interested to see how this progresses. With any luck, it'll open up a market of cheap, well-distributed SOMs, similar to the Pi opening up a market for cheap, well-distributed ARM/Linux Dev Boards. The situation's surprisingly similar: Powerful ARM Dev boards existed before the Pi, but the price was steep, they couldn't be found in traditional distribution channels, and the OS/Driver support was poor at best.…
You really see these being sold in Radio Shack? With Pis, all the average person needed was a regular keyboard, mouse & monitor to plug in. That's why it worked. That's all been thrown out here.
If you're into hobby electronics, it's worth checking out Radio Shack if you've not been in one for a while. They carry much more than just electronic kits for kids.
But I agree that the target market for these is more professional engineers looking to take a prototype into smalltime production, or an early protype into something more refined.
So for many distributed computations in my field (pretty much anything that isn't embarrassingly parallel [0]), the limiting factor is often network communication -- how quickly nodes can send messages to each other. Even as just a toy, putting an affordable arm chip with a serious interconnect would be a really big deal. This is a great step closer. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
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Sounds like doing this will let out the magic smoke in a hurry. Do you think they've fused it so it doesn't short out and trash any board you put it into by mistake?
Seems unlikely. Fuses, MOVs, and clamp diodes cause signal integrity issues (especially at 3.3V and under). And, for 200 lines, the cost might be impressive. That said, if the Pi foundation can arrange for all the I/O to come out of reset in a hi-Z state, then there's a chance they could arrange the rest of the pins to avoid damage. But would it be worth the effort? Given how hard it is to access most sodimm sockets,…
Having it show up as an unrecognized DIMM would be clever, but perhaps not worth the trouble.
I wonder what type of applications will come out of this. For example, I want to build security cameras with Raspberry Pis, but I don't need audio output, USB, HDMI, etc...but I would need WiFi, camera unit, and power. But I doubt we'd see custom IO boards for specific applications such as this, and I don't think it'd be any cheaper than just buying a regular Pi.
is this now viable for cluster? I mean simple backbone for 20+ for these with combined network and power unit? is there still any point at all?