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Raspberry Pi gets a SODIMM Form Factor and Printout

posted by janrinok on Wednesday April 09 2014, @11:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-will-they-think-of-next? dept.

c0lo writes:

Ras Pi foundation announces a new product: the compute module.

The compute module contains the guts of a Raspberry Pi (the BCM2835 processor and 512Mbyte of RAM) as well as a 4Gbyte eMMC Flash device (which is the equivalent of the SD card in the Pi). This is all integrated on to a small 67.6x30mm board which fits into a standard DDR2 SODIMM connector (the same type of connector as used for laptop memory). The Flash memory is connected directly to the processor on the board, but the remaining processor interfaces are available to the user via the connector pins.

While not yet what I imagined by only the name i.e a unit to build a shoebox-sized Beowolf cluster of 1K-RasPi-cores the new form factor and pin-out should make this endeavour easier (ahem... for someone skilled in PCB design, EE practician, and a soldering-fu master that has achieved enlightenment... not quite my profile).

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 10 2014, @12:47AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday April 10 2014, @12:47AM (#29173) Homepage

    In the dystopic future, due to increased recognition of hardware signatures and NWO control of the internet and the access regulations thereof, inexpensive and disposable self-contained computers will be your only way to get your rocks off getting away with posting that first-post troll on Soylent News...again.

  • (Score: 2) by egcagrac0 on Thursday April 10 2014, @12:52AM

    by egcagrac0 (2705) on Thursday April 10 2014, @12:52AM (#29175)

    due to increased recognition of hardware signatures

    This sounds like a job for virtualization.

  • (Score: 1) by lajos on Thursday April 10 2014, @01:47AM

    by lajos (528) on Thursday April 10 2014, @01:47AM (#29200)

    (offtopic)

    Ethanol-fueled your posts are amusing. You should put your blog in your signature, or if you don't have one, you should start one and then put it in your signature.

    Maybe you'll have a picture of yourself on your blog, too. Until then, I'll imagine you as late 1940s, mid baby-bloomer, cranky, cigar smoker dude typing away on a 1990s mechanical keyboard.

    (/offtopic)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 10 2014, @02:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 10 2014, @02:24AM (#29214)

      (offtopic) I'm not going to shove myself [tinypic.com] up your ass farther than I already do. (/offtopic)