Arms up in the event you’ve bought six Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 boards mendacity round doing nothing — don’t all rush directly. For the one individual within the again, there: DeskPi has revealed a $200 service board that may take your sextet of CM4s and mix them into some type of machine-learning-Kubernetes cluster, in a Mini-ITX case, known as the Super6C Raspberry Pi CM4 Cluster Mini-ITX board.
Normal-sized boards that take Raspberry Pi computer systems increased and additional than ever earlier than aren’t new (opens in new tab), however this type of six-node cluster is. Measuring 170mm (6.7 inches) sq. for a Mini-ITX case, it exposes pairs of USB 2.0 ports, HDMIs, and Ethernet sockets (plus an influence enter) to the skin world, hooked up to the primary CM4, which acts as a administration board.
Inside, each board will get a 5V fan header and a Micro SD card slot, in addition to an M.2 2280 slot working at PCIe Gen 2 x1. This isn’t a spectacular velocity, nevertheless it does enable every Compute Module to have its personal SSD housed on the opposite aspect of the board to the CM4s.
Software program help is obscure, with simply the phrase ‘Linux’ offered. Fortunately, there are a number of sorts of Linux that run properly on a Raspberry Pi CM4, and whereas Kubernetes prefers a 64bit OS setting, the official Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu (opens in new tab), and extra can present that.
The DeskPi board is out there from the DeskPi retailer (opens in new tab) for $199 plus transport (it is also on Amazon (opens in new tab) for $249). This worth contains the PCB itself and 100W energy provide — searching and capturing the entire CM4s is as much as you.
