Beginners • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 - Connecting more units

To add to the above project/method, I would guess the good old OctaPi my still work


Still a good old fashioned central controlled cluster.
Pro, Backed by the Raspberry Pi foundation and GCHQ
Cons, you're running it above spec and need some LED's

For reference the link for OctaPi is at

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/pro ... -an-octapi

I find it a nice project, especially in the sense that it's not just buy the hardware, put it together and configure it, but also about using the hardware to estimate an integral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_integration

The bad news is "phrase your answer using pirate talk" was not involved when the OctaPi tutorial was written. WiFi is also a non-ideal medium for a cluster network fabric.

viewtopic.php?p=2304331#p2304331

Note I also have a cluster tutorial on this forum at

viewtopic.php?p=1247739#p1247739

That thread is for the original Pi Zero but the sections about using the hardware could be adapted for the official cluster tutorial linked earlier from the post

viewtopic.php?p=2304371#p2304371

Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Fri Mar 21, 2025 6:21 pm

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