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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)?

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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 @03:30PM (#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.
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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.
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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.
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