On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 07:33:20AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-06-05 4:50 a.m., Christoph Biedl wrote: > > Marc Haber wrote... > > > >> I'd still consider the Raspberry Pi. It's unfortunate that the binary > >> non-free blob is already needed to boot the box even if one doesn't > >> need/use the GPU after booting, but it is reasonably common that > >> people care about their software on the platform, and it's also > >> affordable and has versions with enough RAM available. > > > > Another point here: Since so many people use it, there's a good chance > > even seldom-occurring hardware flaws will be found and eventually worked > > around. An effect we saw some two decades ago with the cheap-but- > > horrible rtl8139 network adapters. > > > > For me, the biggest downside of the RPi4 is the need for an extra power > > plug as they take up to three amps - while for example a BananaPi can be > > powered using some unused USB (<= 3.0) port. > >
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/building-an-amazon-ecs-anywhere-home-lab-with-amazon-vpc-network-connectivity/ Someone has effectively provided you with a shopping list and photographs of something that works - all obtainable from one Raspberry Pi online store. > >> Many of the options pointed out by Siji Sunny are a decade old and > >> therfore do not fill your with for a "modern" platform. I am currently > >> in the process of fading out the Banana Pis because the platform has > >> never really taken off and a dual core 32 bit CPU with 1 GB RAM is > >> running out of fun these days. > > Agreed. > > > This is only a starting project so I'm far from having made all the > decision. > > I only wanted to make the precision that I don't need the GPU and HDMI > output as this may open some more possibility. > > Yes, a serial port based console is still needed, both for debugging, > interactive booting if needed and because it's somewhat a pain to debug > when you have absolutely no output before network is ready. > > I know that there's some project of creating a opensource version of the > Raspberry Pi video core chipset. Maybe this will give me a push to think > about the Pi. But there's also the lower power requirement of some other > solution that interest me. > > I saw a board on AliExpress that offer some AllWonder A33 with 1 or 2Gb > RAM for a really good price. > For what I'll be doing, I could use such board and pack them 4 together > as this give added power that you don't get by just using a board with > more core. Two system with 4 core is better than one system with 8 core, > at least if you only do pure maths. > > I'm still learning much on ARM now. > For pure maths - Debian all the way, but probably on ARM64 All best, Andy C. > -- > Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside > -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development >
