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*Concept is a (Raspberry) pie sitting on a slid out rack mount tray, on a server cabinet, letting out steam as it cools
*Concept is a (Raspberry) pie sitting on a slid out rack mount tray, on a server cabinet, letting out steam as it cools
*Low quality concept sketch here:
*Low quality concept sketch here:
**][File:Pi Rack Logo Concept V1.JPEG]]
**[[File:Pi Rack Logo Concept V1.JPEG]]


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Revision as of 22:31, 19 May 2020

Basics

  • A Rasberry Pi , Open Rack format, Modular, Compute Cluster
  • Used for Render Farms , reducing Ai Training Time , NAS processing, and Servers
  • Is even more modular, upgrade-able than standard rack mount systems as it is made of many small RPi's
  • May be less fast/optimized, so eventually a proper motherboard based system will be more (cost) effective
  • Also allows for easy maitnence due to modules being swappable + easier to fix than larger boards
  • Will use ethernet for networking

To-Do

  • Choose a software/firmware
  • See what power is best (ie no throttling/bottlenecks) options are: USB (easiest), Barrel Jack (more annoying to implement, especially OTS, but do-able, and POE more costly,, requires adapters
  • Calculate best number of boards per OpenRack
    • Going to guess 20 for now to leave room for electronics + networking
  • Look into other networking methos (modified toslink, infiniband, higher gb/s ethernet etc)
  • Make graphs for cost/core and performance/size etc

Logo/Branding Work

Name

  • Great Marketing Name:
    • Pi Rack
    • Ie a rack of pies, making graphics right now

  • Concept is a (Raspberry) pie sitting on a slid out rack mount tray, on a server cabinet, letting out steam as it cools
  • Low quality concept sketch here:
    • Pi Rack Logo Concept V1.JPEG

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