Busy times

The BOINC Raspberry Cluster is still alive and crunching, no worries. The last two month have been extremely busy in the office. With the summer season started there was no time to update the blog. Unfortunately I found out that…

Overclocking the Pi4

Lately one of the POE HATs fan failed and it took a while to source spare parts for repair. In the meantime I noticed that the Raspberry Pi was running stable right below 60°C on full load. Thanks to the…

BOINC Cluster Benchmarks April 2021

April was very busy for me and I did not really get my hands one the cluster. So the Raspberry Pi Nodes got time to crunch pretty undisturbed. Only thing to mention is that the fan of one POE HAT…

BOINC Cluster Benchmarks and Updates March 2021

Finally I was able to finish print and assembly of the cluster rack case. Some missing parts needed to be fetched which was a sometimes a little complicated because of COVID restrictions. Instead of ordering things via Amazon prime I…

64Bit versus 32Bit

I was looking forward to volunteer some raspiBOINC CPU time to the Asteroids@Home project. When the BOINC-client requested tasks response from server was: Message from server: This project doesn’t support computers of type aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu The Asteroids@Home application is only build…

Asteroids@home is back online

You may have noticed that the BOINC distributed computing project Asteroids@home went down in July 2020 because of a fatal server crash. Because of the pandemic the team behind this project at Charles University were not able to replace the…

Removing the M$ repository

You might have noticed the discussion about that Microsoft repository which the Raspberry Foundation has added – without any notice – to their Raspian OS. The vscode repo adds a Visual Studio Code Editor to Raspian – directly from Microsofts…

BOINC Cluster Benchmarks February 2021

In February the Cluster had a couple of downtimes since the build of the 19″ Pi rack has begun. As you may have heard I gifted myself a Prusa Mini+ 3D Printer in order to „print“ a special 19″ case.…

Priority Shipment

Today I received a late christmas present I ordered myself in December 2020. I already did a blog post on Raspberry Pi cases earlier and I am still in love with the idea of printing my own cases with a…