Another neat use-case for this hardware is scale testing of systems management tooling, eg. provisioning, configuration management. HPC centers are looking at the possibility of having to manage 100k+ nodes in a single cluster.
- Gigabit Ethernet MAC on-board, Pine64's SOPINE and Raspberry Pi Compute Module both require per node networking components to be on the carrier board.
- Basic headers used for connecting to a carrier board
- Carrier board "only" needs an embedded switch and 5v power. However, I've not yet come across an embedded switch yet that has a non-blocking ratio of 1GbE ports to 10/25GbE uplinks.
- Carrier board should probably be mini-ITX or other standard form factor to fit in existing chassis. Form factor and embedded switch options are going to limit the number of nodes per carrier board.
Additional links:
http://cluster.bitscope.com
http://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2017/Novem...
My favorite form factor to go build a Pi-like Cluster is something like this: http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&p....
- Gigabit Ethernet MAC on-board, Pine64's SOPINE and Raspberry Pi Compute Module both require per node networking components to be on the carrier board.
- Basic headers used for connecting to a carrier board
- Carrier board "only" needs an embedded switch and 5v power. However, I've not yet come across an embedded switch yet that has a non-blocking ratio of 1GbE ports to 10/25GbE uplinks.
- Carrier board should probably be mini-ITX or other standard form factor to fit in existing chassis. Form factor and embedded switch options are going to limit the number of nodes per carrier board.