Which Pine or Rock for ~20-40$ is best for Boinc(Rosetta@home)

[MarijusR]

Hello. I wish to join Rosetta@home . I have close people
 with those disease. I see that android 4+ and arm is ok for this project. I thinking about buying 3-6 boards for this. Witch Pine or Rock computer do more job/more task at same time/ efficiency for this ? Is better  buy 2 SBC ~30$ or 1 SBD for~60$?  Sorry for my English

[Paraplegic Racehorse]

In terms of total front-end cost, you're much better off buying a single board since each needs its own microSD card and power supply; plus monitor, keyboard, mouse if not running "headless." As cheap as they are, these little things can get expensive fast if you let them.

Also, more long-term, 2 cards use more electricity than 1. This is a very real cost, though you probably won't notice it in your electric bill for such small devices...

If you can squeeze a little more into your budget, BOINC should be able to leverage the Mali GPU on the RockPro64, providing even more computational power than the (more powerful) CPU alone.


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[tllim]

Hello. I wish to join Rosetta@home . I have close people
 with those disease. I see that android 4+ and arm is ok for this project. I thinking about buying 3-6 boards for this. Witch Pine or Rock computer do more job/more task at same time/ efficiency for this ? Is better  buy 2 SBC ~30$ or 1 SBD for~60$?  Sorry for my English

For your indicate budget, explore ROCK64 and ROCKPro64.

[MarijusR]

In terms of total front-end cost, you're much better off buying a single board since each needs its own microSD card and power supply; plus monitor, keyboard, mouse if not running "headless." As cheap as they are, these little things can get expensive fast if you let them.

Also, more long-term, 2 cards use more electricity than 1. This is a very real cost, though you probably won't notice it in your electric bill for such small devices...

If you can squeeze a little more into your budget, BOINC should be able to leverage the Mali GPU on the RockPro64, providing even more computational power than the (more powerful) CPU alone.


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ROCK64 2GB ~x2 cheaper  that ROCKPro64 2GB. I will use PSU and SSH. So i don't need power adapters and monitors. Only SD  multiply by SBC. Any of you have benchmark for Boinc, or Rosseta, or other perspective medicine project ?

[MarijusR]

Can some run boinc and then boinccmd --run_benchmarks. Then post pine or rock type , scoren and os?