I am really interested in seeing if we can standardize on Raspberry Pis as the Official Public Node of NXT and deploy a lot of those all over the world rather than renew a bunch of more expensive VPSs that got us thru the initial late Dec crunch. I have heard different things about it - it can definitely forge blocks, it's underpowered for the task, it works better if you plug a thumb drive in the USB port to give it more memory, it needs to be replaced by a Cubie. I would like to pull all this together and come up with a definitive answer on a Raspberry config that is qualified to be a Service Node without running out of horsepower. Dave, your thoughts?
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If we're thinking of deploying embedded servers like Rpi instead of VPS, I'd suggest we consider Odroid-U3. It's only marginally more costly than Rpi, but have far better tech specs. I've been running one for weeks and it works like a charm.
I repeat what I said weeks ago. The RaspberryPi thing can be extremely huge for Nxt. For the network, and for marketing.
If a smartphone (when we switch to binary) can process 1000TPS, a RaspberryPi could also process 1000TPS, am I right? If this is not the case, we should look into the Odroid, if it is far superior to RPi.
Are the RPi running stable? Would the Odroid run more stable?
I have no clue about this stuff but maybe some technical guys could help with that.
If RPis are running stable AND can process 1000TPS (with binary code), I wan't to see thousands of them all over the planet running Nxt. THIS is decentralization in perfection.