Raise your hand if you have six idle Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 boards. As for his one in the back, DeskPi revealed his $200 career board. This board takes sextets from CM4 and combines them into some kind of machine learning Kubernetes cluster. In a Mini-ITX case, Super6C Raspberry Pi CM4 Cluster Mini-ITX board.
Standard-sized boards that carry Raspberry Pi computers higher and farther than ever before are nothing new (opens in new tab)But this kind of 6 node cluster does. Measuring 170 mm (6.7 inches) square for a Mini-ITX case, it has an external pair of USB 2.0 ports, HDMI and Ethernet sockets (and power input) connected to the first CM4 that acts as a management board. Publish. .
Under the hood, every board has a 5V fan header and a Micro SD card slot, as well as an M.2 2280 slot running at PCIe Gen 2 x1. This isn’t blazing speed, but it allows each compute module to house its own SSD on the opposite side of the board to her CM4.
Software support is vague, offering just the word “Linux”. Luckily, there are several flavors of Linux that work fine on the Raspberry Pi CM4, Kubernetes prefers a 64-bit OS environment, but the official his Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu (opens in new tab)etc., we can provide it.
The DeskPi board is DeskPi Store (opens in new tab) $199 plus shipping Amazon (opens in new tab) $249). This price includes the PCB itself and his 100W power supply. It’s up to you to find and retrieve all CM4s.
