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Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by nsky-world on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:11PM (#24829769)
Today we are thrilled to announce the Turing Pi V2. The Turing Pi V2 is s compact cluster in a mini ITX form factor with 4 x cluster nodes, 2x mini PCIe (Gen 2) ports, 2x SATA (Gen 3) ports, and new Raspberry Pi compute modules 4 support.

The Turing Pi 2 cluster is architecturally similar to the AWS Graviton clusters. The CM4 processor uses the ARMv8 architecture. You can build images and applications for AWS instances of Graviton 1 and 2, host cloud native apps locally or at the edge and more.

Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by rektide on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:39PM (#24830058)
> The Turing Pi 2 cluster is architecturally identical to the AWS Graviton clusters.

Graviton2 uses Armv8.2-A, as opposed to the Armv8.0-A on the CM4. Graviton2's cores are "Neoverse" vs CM4's Cortex A73, which is also a significant difference. A lot of code will be portable, but these are significantly different cores.

Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by geerlingguy on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:48PM (#24830171)
Probably more accurate to put "architecturally similar".
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by nsky-world on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:49PM (#24830181)
Noted!
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by boris on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:19AM (#24836439)
On the page you mention CI/CD applications and we are considering using Raspberry Pi for our CI infra (for the lack of a more powerful option). While there are various possible setups, one fairly common arrangement (especially in a more public-facing services) is to start a throw-away VM for each CI request. This is how our CI service works and you can see it here[1] in action.

And while it would have been nice to use Turing Pi, it does not appear to fit our requirements very well because we need to have high-performance storage attached to each node (where we store/run the VMs). An ideal board for us would be a network switch plus for each module a PCIe (or better yet, NVMe) slot and USB 2.0 ports (at least 2x).

[1] https://ci.cppget.org

Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by mobilio on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:43AM (#24835864)
IT's amazing device!

For now i'm running a few RPi devices and i was dream about such device to put them in for more processing power.

Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by iron2disulfide on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:25PM (#24830597)
I'd like to know more about the PCIe Gen2. From your comment it sounds like the root port is capable of Gen2x2, or is it 2x Gen2x1 ports? If I wanted to attach a PCIe accelerator card with a standard PCIe connector, is there some kind of adapter cable I would need to buy?
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by nsky-world on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:55PM (#24830913)
2x Gen2x1
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by geerlingguy on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:26PM (#24829921)
For the mini PCIe, do you mean they will be PCIe 1x slots, or something like an M.2 connector?

And will it be set up where each board gets one of those slots (e.g. 2 boards get single PCIe, 2 boards get single SATA)?

Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by nsky-world on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:30PM (#24829968)
m2 connector is something we are still experimenting with. The first two nodes are exposed to mini PCI express port, the third node is exposed to 2-ports 6 Gbps SATA controller. You can use the network file system within the cluster to access hard drives from other nodes.
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by ant6n on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:59PM (#24830954)
Would it be possible to install a modern graphics card on this (e.g. some ati Radeon)? That would require some physical adapter on the one hand, and driver support for armv8 on the other.
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by geerlingguy on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:48PM (#24830164)
I guess it's possible to adapt the mini PCI express port to M.2 pretty easily too. Having it PCI express lets you do other interesting things though too besides just storage.
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by russell_h on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:41AM (#24834790)
This is very neat.

I’m sorry if I missed it, but have you announced pricing?

Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by nsky-world on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:02AM (#24835979)
We are expecting the price to be cheaper than the V1, but the final price will be announced later this year.
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by k1e on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:42AM (#24837168)
Excuse me, whats the price of V1? Cant find it on your website.
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by nsky-world on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:46PM (#24840942)
V1 is $189
Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by theandrewbailey on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:22AM (#24836953)
Are those USB 3 ports? or USB 2? Do they belong to any particular node?