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Turing RK1 is 2x faster, 1.8x pricier than Pi 5


I've long been a fan of Pi clusters. It may be an irrational hobby, building tiny underpowered SBC clusters I can fit in my backpack, but it is a fun hobby.

They started designing a new SoM (System on Module) compatible with their Turing Pi 2 board (which uses an Nvidia Jetson-compatible pinout), and the result is the RK1: DeskPi sent me their RackMate T1, an 8U 10" desktop rack, and I installed the Turing Pi 2 board (with four RK1s) inside a MyElectronics Mini ITX 10" rackmount case. One I'm excited about is a 1U Mini ITX 'tray' that would allow me to mount up to 8 of their DeskPi Super6C boards—that'd be 48 Raspberry Pi CM4s, totaling 192 CPU cores and 384 GB of RAM... for a whopping $5,000 or so, lol.

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