Cluster preparations

The Raspberry Pi4 are now up and running. Now there is some customizing needed before we can start settting up the kubernetes cluster. First a member of a cluster a called node. Each kubernetes cluster has a master node which…

Raspberry preparations

Now we are ready to setup and prepare the Raspberrys for Cluster operation mode. So what do we need? In order to take advantage of the 8 GB of Ram on the Pi we need an OS which is capable…

Cluster Housings

As I wrote before it es difficult to find the right case for the BOINC Cluster. There are lots of options on the market regarding those cases. The Waveshare PoE HATs with their GPIO extension are limiting the choices of…

Shipments have arrived

Finally all orders have arrived. Raspberrys and Heatsinks had to be sourced different than the Ubiquiti switch and mircoSD cards. Luckily someone just started distribution of Waveshare PoE HATs here in Germany. So those did not need to ship around…

Hardware considerations

So let’s try to build a BOINC Kubernetes Cluster on Raspberry Pi 4 Computers. What do we need for that? All Rasperry Pi 4 Model B Computers come along with a ARM Cortex A72 CPU (4 Cores), onboard Gigabit Ethernet,…

A BOINC Cluster ?

So, the Desktop was crunching 24/7 mainly on Rosetta@Home and vacations in foreign countries were not able this summer, what else can we do? Why not building a Cluster which runs BOINC? Nowadays deployment, scaling and maintenance is fully automated…

My BOINC volunteer history

2020 was difficult for most of us because of the pandemic. With escalation of infections numbers spreading all around the globe it was clear, that a vaccine is needed to stop the spreading. I started with SETI@home as a kinda…