Raspberry Pi cluster

In February 2013, the idea for a reincarnation of the Beowulf cluster arose. This would be a rackmount-type box where people could colocate their Raspberry Pis in our rack. Despite the name, this does not imply that shared computing software will be run on it; it's simply a way of efficiently sharing power supplies, networking gear, and rack space.

Contents

Needed supplies

• Rackmount case (mutantmonkey has a 5U one)
• Rackmount 10/100 switch (Matt has one)
• Patch panel to mount on front of case (Matt can probably acquire one)
  • Could use this for power and GPIO access in addition to ethernet
• Bulk ethernet, etc (Matt has plenty)
• 5V USB PDU (may have to custom build --Mjh (talk) 17:11, 21 February 2013 (EST))
• Cases (we can 3D-print these)
• Blinkenlights to attract attention and envy from others in the CVL. (Can build this with some LEDs and GPIO access --Mjh (talk) 14:35, 22 February 2013 (EST))

Applications

• Personal shell servers
• MPI compute cluster
• Appliance control with solid state relays

Connectivity

• Native IPv6
• IPv4 NAT behind VTLUUG router (temp88191.ece.vt.edu)
• Tunneled AMPRnet IPv4 for ham use

Other clusters

• Raspberry Pi control center
• Riak cluster
• 64-node Lego RPi cluster at University of Southampton

Other RPi projects

• Rackmount home automation system
• Mesh networking with the RPi