magic_sam

Dear all, I stumbled upon this piece of news some days ago: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-with-rockchip-rk3588-development-kit-with-8g-ram-and-32g-emmc-flash/13123 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-alternative-banana-pi-golden-sodimm 8 cores + 8 GB of RAM: exactly what I'm looking for at the moment Opinions ? Feel free to move this thread elsewhere if it doesn't belong in off-topic. Best regards, Magic Sam

Hi all I received the NanoPI-R4S yesterday ! It has been running Einstein@Home jobs since the moment it arrived: https://einsteinathome.org/show_host_detail.php?hostid=12919930 Thermal dissipation seems to be good: the metal case is burning hot to the touch, yet the CPU temperature is "only" ~60° C, with 4 cores always running at 100% and 2 cores mostly idle. I only wish there were more RAM. Boinc gets oom-killed some times. Cheers, Magic Sam

Hi all ! Just to let you know I received a text message today about the NanoPi R4S arriving in my country I had to pay my national mail delivery service ~6€ to release the package from customs. Cheers, Magic Sam

Great review @Werner, thanks for sharing I bought a cheap aluminium heat sink for my NanoPi M1, and it doesn't do a great job IMHO (temperature still at ~70°C, I even downclocked the CPU to 1200 MHz but to little avail). The board is resting on a hard surface, so air can't circulate freely around it, that may explain why. I guess I'll have to invest in better heat sinks like the ones in your article to properly cool down the NanoPi R4S. I also ordered the metal case which Friendly Elec claim is good for thermal dissipation. We'll see whether that's true or not Best regards, Magic Sam

OK, I just went ahead and ordered a NanoPi R4S from Friendly Elec: https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=284 https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-r4s/ I'll let you all know as soon as it arrives Best regards, Magic Sam

Dear @Werner, Thank you for your quick reply, really appreciated Best regards, Magic Sam

Dear all, As said elsewhere, I'm interested in distributed scientific computing, namely BOINC, and more specifically the Einstein@Home project: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ https://einsteinathome.org/fr/home ARM platforms seem to be a good choice for that purpose IMHO. Even though they lack the raw power of x86_64, at least they don't use a lot of energy and don't need active cooling most of the time (I can't stand the noise of a fan ). At the moment I'm running BOINC on two ARM nodes: a Raspberry PI 3 (Raspbian) and a NanoPi M1 (Armbian). Both are quite dated now and don't allow me to contribute much to this project. In your opinion, what would be the most powerful SBC running Armbian at the moment ? I've read some nice reviews about Rockchip CPU, are they worth it ? Since GPU jobs are optimized for Nvidia and AMD (OpenCL Full Profile), I'll only be able to run code on the CPU at first. Best regards, Magic Sam

Dear all, First post here I just wanted to thank you for the up-to-date image you made for the pcDuino4 Nano (a.k.a the NanoPI M1): https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/nanopim1/archive/ It's much better than the stock image provided my LinkSprite, based upon Debian 8 "Jessie": https://www.linksprite.com/pcduino4-nano/ I only had one issue so far with your image, certainly related to the default overclocking at 1368 MHz, which didn't play well with the CPU intensive, NEON optimized tasks I threw at it (BOINC) I lowered the frequency to 1296 MHz and it's been running stable for a couple of hours now So thanks again and keep up the good work ! Best regards, Magic Sam from the Open Pandora / Dragonbox Pyra community https://www.openpandora.org/ https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/