Raspberry Pi 5 Thread

[Endgame124]

I have a pi 5 and am finding a number of things have changed from the 4. Enough to justify a thread specifically for the 5.

 

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Why use a Raspberry pi?

I've been using 4GB Raspberry Pis for almost 4 years now, and they are quite energy efficient in points per watt when compared to my old hardware, such as a Ryzen 2700X. The Pi 5 is the newest version that runs in a similar power envelope as the Pi 4 for DC usage but does more work per watt.

Beyond a low power footprint, for a minimal purchase, I can incrementally add more processing power.

Pi options
The Current version is the Pi 5, which comes with, 4GB ($60), or 8GB ($80) of ram.

There little reason to get any of the older Pis for DC as the pi 5 is more performant and the savings are minimal - a 2GB pi 4 is $45, saving only 15 over the 4GB Pi 5.

Resources
Official Raspberry Pi page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/

 

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Pi OS and installation
My Preferred OS build for Boinc (Raspbian lite)

 

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Pi Tweaks and Configuration

Shutting down non essential hardware

 

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Boinc Topics
Arm on Linux / Raspberry Pi Supported Projects

 

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Minimizing Costs for multi pi Boinc deployments

 

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Networking and Management

 

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Putting it all together (Pi Equipment and Configuration)

 

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I'll be building this thread over time - I don't have all the information ready to roll for bulk upload. Feel free to post and contribute anything you've learned about the pi 5

 

[Endgame124]

I reimaged one of my pi 4s with the newest Raspbian lite (bookworm), and set up Einstien on it so I could have side by side results with my pi5

Binary Radio Pulsar Search WUs:

pi 5 on einstein:
1500mhz: 11,502 CPU time
2400mhz 10,950 CPU time

pi 4 on einstein
1525mhz: 15,753 CPU time

The pi 5 so far seems to be drawing <5 watt on einstein (my current setup makes it hard to to be definitive at the moment) and extensive testing on the pi 4s has them using 3.84w under full load

 

[Orange Kid]

Interesting. I will have to take some time for comparisons to some of my CPU's and GPU's to see what may be more cost effective to run.

 

[mmonnin03]

I had to do this to get SiDock to work on my RPI5. They would otherwise instantly abort.

All tasks for computer 54706

www.sidock.si

Pi5: Error loading libtinfo.so.6: ELF load command address/offset not page-aligned - Raspberry Pi Forums

forums.raspberrypi.com

Add this text:

kernel=kernel8.img

to file:
/boot/firmware/config.txt

 

[mmonnin03]

The first two tasks completed in 19:28 and 20:04 or 70.1k and 72.2k seconds each.

Compared to my RPI 3Bs in seconds for each of the 3 I have running. I thought they were all clocked the same but they show different times. 5-8 times faster.
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