How I Built a Raspberry Pi Cluster for Cheap
This is the first of the ‘How I built’ trilogy detailing the build process of all 3 of my clusters.
As you may have already read in my earlier post, I built my first cluster, Octopi in April 2017 for a really superficial reason, if you haven’t read it yet, I suggest you do that for a good laugh.
Origins
I chose Octopi, the unsanctioned latin plural of the word Octopus as it’s the only word I could think of with a Pi in it. Coincidentally, the prefix ‘octo’ is also a quantifier, signifying 8 and so I thought it would be interesting to create a ludicrous 8-node Raspberry Pi cluster.
The standard pluralised form of “octopus” in English is “octopuses”. The alternative plural “octopi” is considered grammatically incorrect because it wrongly assumes that octopus is a Latin second declension “-us” noun or adjective when, in either Greek or Latin, it is a third declension noun. (Wikipedia)
Lack of budget
I had planned to have 8 nodes to fit the name but eventually found it a little too extravagant given that I was a poor student back in 2017 and I had absolutely no…
