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.…