ODROID-MC1 Solo with Samsung Exynos5422 processor, 2 GB of RAM

Description

Odroid-MC1 Solo is a minicomputer with an Samsung Exynos5422 processor (ARM® Cortex ™ -A15 Quad 2.0GHz / Cortex ™ -A7 Quad 1.4GHz) which has 2 GB of RAM (LPDDR3) available. The module is dedicated to the construction of computer clusters, has a housing that allows you to connect multiple modules with each other.

On the built cluster based on Odroid-MC1 Solo you can run, among others: Docker Swarm, Build Farm and many other parallel computer applications.

To run the minicomputer, you also need (not included):

• Power supply with DC 5.5 / 2.1 mm plug (e.g. 5V / 4A power supply for Odroid XU4 / HC1 DC 5.5x2.1)
• MicroSD memory card (with a minimum capacity of 8 GB) for storing the operating system.

Available ready-made computer cluster consisting of 4 Odroid-MC1 Solo modules: ODROID-MC1 - a set of 4 minicomputers with Samsung Exynos5422

Construction of the cluster with Odroid-MC1 Solo

To build a cluster that will be based on Odroid-MC1 modules you need:

• n x Odroid-MC1 Solo
• n x Power supply with DC 5.5 / 2.1 mm plug (e.g. 5V / 4A Power Supply for Odroid XU4 / HC1 DC 5.5x2.1)
• 1 x Switch with n + 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• n + 1 x Ethernet cable
• n x microSD memory cards (with a minimum capacity of 8 GB)

Performance tests

The manufacturer has performed several performance tests of an exemplary computer cluster consisting of ODROID-MC1 Solo / Odroid XU4 modules and other single-chip computers such as Raspberry Pi 3, Odroid C1+, Odroid C2.

The computing power of the Odroid MC1 cluster is approximately 7 times greater than the Raspberry Pi 3 minicomputer, this performance is due to the use of an eight-core processor and 2 GB of RAM.

Odroid MC1 has a built-in Gigabyte Ethernet port. It allows two-way communication with a speed of about 910 Mbps. Obtaining such speeds is possible thanks to the use of an advanced RTL8153 controller, which allows for higher speeds than previous generations of Odroid boards.

Below are the results of the tests compared to the XU3 minicomputer

Testing commands:

Server mode : iperf -s
Client Mode : iperf -c [ip address] -P 10 -W 32k

Features

• Processor (CPU): Samsung Exynos5422 (ARM® Cortex ™ -A15 Quad 2.0GHz / Cortex ™ -A7 Quad 1.4GHz)
• RAM memory: 2 GB LPDDR3 RAM PoP (750Mhz, memory bandwidth 12GB / s, 2x32bit bus)
• Graphics layout (GPU): Mali ™ -T628 MP6 (supporting OpenGL ES 3.1 / 3.0 / 2.0 / 1.1 and OpenCL 1.2)
• MicroSD card slot (supporting UHS-1 SDXC cards up to 128 GB)
• USB 2.0 Host
• USB type A (HighSpeed) port
• Works under Linux control based on Kernel 4.9 LTS or Kernel 4.14 LTS
• Gigabit Ethernet 10/100 / 1000Mbps port (RJ-45 connector, supports Auto-MDIX)
• Power supply: DC 5.5 / 2.1 mm (4.8-5.2 V) socket
• Dimensions: 92 x 42 x 29 mm