
You could use Ansible for maintaining them although I don't. Given its a BOINC project there is no need to run clustering software, just run BOINC on each node and use BOINCtasks to monitor them. No need to make work for yourself using Ubuntu and Docker. I'm using the Raspberry Pi OS 64 bit version. The info on his website helped me alot getting mine up and running as did setting up ZRam in some of the memory. Here is a link to his computers here at Rosetta: The User PorkyPies has a cluster of Pi's running and the link to it is here. As for replacing your Ryzen not a chance, my suggestion is just to throttle the Ryzen during the day when people are complaining and then crank it up when you leave for the day and then throttle it again the next day. I did some Rosetta units on my Pi 4 8gb and they worked great but I only let it run 3 at a time, it may have been able to run 4 at a time but no more than that as the Pi 4 is only a quad core machine, add in the steps to add the 32bit stuff and getting the name of the Pi so Rosetta will use it and it worked great. Can a Pi cluster do close to the amount of work but use less power? enough to heat up the office and cause complaints. My desktop tears through work, but uses about 370 W of power. My idea is to see how many RPi's it takes to make one AMD Ryzen 9 3990X and also to compare them on a work/kW-h basis.
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Any comments or suggestions about how to get a cluster up and running in a secure fashion would be appreciated. I found a post or web page about using Docker to do this. I am toying with setting up an RPi cluster of RPi-4B's (4 Gb). I've been contributing for a while with Mac and AMD Ryzen systems. I think Rosetta is now issuing work units that will run on Raspberry Pi's (correct? or at least some of them).
