Turing 2 Pi raises $1 million in a day
The Pi-based cluster computing Kickstarter project smashes its own targets for full funding.
Cluster computer Turing Pi 2 has smashed its modest funding target of $64,000 by a country mile. It cruised through the $1 million barrier in just one day, ending up with a final total over $1.5 million. The Turing Pi 2 is a four-node mini ITX cluster board with a built-in Ethernet switch that runs Raspberry Pi CM4, a new Turing RK1 module or Nvidia Jetson compute modules in any combination.
The new Turing RK1 features the Rockchip RK3588 octa-core processor and up to 32GB RAM. The RK3588 sports four Arm Cortex-A72 cores and four A55 cores. It also carries a neural processing unit (NPU) that’s capable of six TOPS, making such a cluster more attractive to the machine-learning crowd.