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Well I'm a sexist...

As to men...I would rather buy newer stuff for my cloud...like the new Xeons...
than to mess around with RPi, which doesn't work on WCG...or SETi@home... ;)
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What about cruching on a "Compute stick" such as the Intel Compute stick STCK1A32WFC or similar - there's 2GB RAM, Atom Z3735F Quad core, HDMI-connector...small form factor, 8.5W Power draw.

10 of these for $1500 total would give 40 cores at probably 85-100W. Pretty decent. Also, there are cheaper alternatives with same hardware on eBay etc.

Maybe something Worth looking into?
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Hi Rob,

Yes the icon is that of a Raspberry! I'm using v7.2.47 of the BOINC manager, which doesn't show any projects with the RasPi icon next to them. With that said I've never added another project to my list as I only compute for WCG these days.

I just updated to the latest (v7.4.36 at the time of typing) and seems that this is still the same. Nevertheless, I still refer to the list of projects on the BOINC website (see the first link in my original post).

You mention that anything ARM compliant should work, but the Pi2 is an ARM7 CPU and the message I get is something to the effect of "This project doesn't support computers of type arm-unknown-linux-gnueadihf". Thoughts?

Reply to old post, rip from other thread, you may give it a try using the platform tags in cc_config.xml, sample from Collatz
<cc_config>
   ...
   <options>
     <alt_platform>arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf</alt_platform>
     <no_alt_platform>0</no_alt_platform> 
     ...
   </options>

 </cc_config>

Could Android 4.1 or above be hacked onto the device [ https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=99272 ] and the appropriate inducement with the config options, you might get very lucky.
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A miniboard survey on 10 of these, where Raspberry PI2 rulez: http://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-stays-sky-high-in-2015-hacker-sbc-survey/

(Odroid's in 4th, 6th and 10th spot, think Eric_Kaiser is crunching with those... at least something Odroid).
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You're right Rob. Got two odroid xu3 lite and two odroid u3 running wcg.
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A 'Case' for the Raspberry PI2: http://www.itrunsonlinux.com/hardware/official-raspberry-pi-2-case/
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Pretty cool, Mac OS-X as setup gateway for the PI: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/ho...ry-pi-in-mac-os-x-1297858
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Been a while, but glad to see that conversation has continued in my absence....

Seems that Windows 10 is now out on the RPI2 (link1 , link2 ).

You can find details on how to set it up at the first link and also here . If anyone has tested this it'd be good to hear your thoughts/benchmarks.

I'll be trying it in a few weeks once I get a spare moment....
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Hi,
if WCG - respectively the scientists - would consider to support RPi, please do this for a Linux-based installation and not (at first) for Win10.
Already on conventional PC, the performance difference between a Linux-based machine and a Windows-based machine is for some project (e.g. OET1) factor 2.
Considering the lower performance of a RPi in comparison to i5 and i7, Win10 would be surely the poorest choice for crunching purpose.
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Hi,
if WCG - respectively the scientists - would consider to support RPi, please do this for a Linux-based installation and not (at first) for Win10.


Agreed, Win10 is not the best choice for long-term support on WCG; irrespective of what kind of device it is (RPI, Odroid, BeagleBone, etc.)

The architecture and distro is already supported by other projects; hopefully over time WCG will include support for this as well....
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