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On the inevitable quest of finding the ultimate edge SBC, I came across this contraption. This is a Turing Pi 2.5 Mini-ITX cluster with 4 slots that currently contain a Turing RK1, a Jetson Orin Nano 8GB and two Jetson Orin NX 16GBs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partially because when I was 6, IBM released the IBM PC in hopes that perhaps people at home would consider owning a personal computer. I’ve been building PCs ever since, and this little cluster is just a really cool new addition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partially because I’m not on team cloud, and this kind of hardware has the potential to run pretty complicated things locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partially because we will need good understanding and advice on what kind of hardware would be capable and affordable enough for the Mind Children robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Turing RK1 is based on the Rockchip RK3588, the older and bigger Chinese brother of the Raspberry Pi5. It has 8 cores, 32GB, and a 6 TOPS NPU. It’s approx. 4 times faster than a Pi5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jetsons run at 67 TOPS (Orin Nano 8GB) and 275 TOPS (Orin NX 16GB), which is serious deep learning inference prowess for your favorite LLMs or classification models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes a bit of linux terminal starening to install everything the way you want to, and the provided installation guides can be somewhat challenging. I would say, it took about 3 days of flashing, restarting, replugging, swearing, and more flashing, until I could comfortably open SSH connections to the nodes running Ubuntu 24.04. More about this in future posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the names of the nodes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, I could have gone for john<\/code>, paul<\/code>, george<\/code> and ringo<\/code>… But I’m not a Beatles-fan. Or john<\/code>, john<\/code>, jimmy<\/code> and robert<\/code>, but let’s face it, having two nodes with the same name can be very confusing for DNS servers. Further contemplation also included leonardo<\/code>, donatello<\/code>, raphael<\/code> and michelangelo<\/code>, and even sporty<\/code>, scary<\/code>, baby<\/code> and posh<\/code>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But after even more deliberation, I finally settled for the far more reasonable hannibal<\/code>, face<\/code>, ba<\/code> and murdock<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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