Cute, but powerful: meet NanoCluster, a tiny supercomputer

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Sipeed sent a NanoCluster - up to 7 nodes in the palm of your hand! At least, that's what the photos show. Does it run when you put in seven Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5s? And how are thermals, power, and performance? Sipeed did not pay for this video nor have any say in its content (or a chance to review it before it went live). But because they sent this early review sample to me for my testing, I put the 'Includes Paid Sponsorship' tag on the video. See my review and sponsorship policies here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube?tab=readme-ov-file#sponsorships Links to things I mentioned in this video: - Sipeed NanoCluster: https://sipeed.com/nanocluster - Review data on Pi PCIe site: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/issues/739 - Ansible Pi Cluster playbook: https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-cluster - Top500 HPL benchmark results: https://github.com/geerlingguy/top500-benchmark/issues/63 - SBC Reviews website: https://sbc-reviews.jeffgeerling.com - Distributed Llama: https://github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://www.redshirtjeff.com 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GeerlingEngineering 3rd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Level2Jeff Contents: 00:00 - It's tiny 00:39 - First look at the NanoCluster 03:02 - IO and a RISC-V network switch 04:25 - Tiny LM3H SoMs 05:39 - CM4/CM5 Adapter boards 07:05 - eMMC vs Lite considerations 09:07 - PoE++ First Boot 09:47 - Power and cooling testing 11:00 - Accidentally discovering redundant power supplies 12:51 - Watch the hand, Jeff 14:20 - Fan noise, cooling performance 15:45 - Viewer questions 16:43 - Power consumption 17:18 - How fast is networking? 17:32 - K3s and kubernetes performance 17:50 - How fast? (featuring MPI and HPL) 18:47 - Distributed Llama 19:31 - distcc for speedy Arm compile times? 19:59 - Ceph distributed filesystem 20:16 - Other CM4 clone compatibility 20:35 - Actual use cases 21:09 - Gaming on a cluster? 21:37 - Strong opinions