On: Building a Raspberry Pi Cluster

[jdboyd]

The Raspberry Pi strikes me as a particularly ill suited platform choice for a cluster. I'm not going to complain about using ARM, that's a fair enough choice. But couldn't they have at least chosen an ARM that actually has ethernet on board instead of connected by USB? There are Pogoplugs with a faster ARM processor and built in GigE for $16 or $22 on Amazon.

[cs02rm0 → jdboyd]

The Raspberry Pi has ethernet on board.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/751305...

[alexkus → cs02rm0]

The Raspberry Pi onboard ethernet is connected via USB.

$ dmesg | grep -i usb | grep -i ether

[ 3.058947] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:[ELIDED]

[cs02rm0 → alexkus]

Ohhh. I see, thanks.