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Raspberry Pi Powered Compute Blade Makes the Cut

posted by hubie on Friday February 17, @03:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the imagine-a-beowulf-cluster-of-these dept.

upstart writes:

Building Raspberry Pi clusters has never looked so good:

We've been tracking this project since mid 2021, and the time has been well spent. Ivan Kuleshov's Compute Blade is a thin PCB that packs a plethora of storage options for your Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (or compatible). Kuleshov's kickstarter has smashed its $522,209 funding goal, reaching $673,365 at the time of writing.

The Compute Blade is a rack-mountable carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, designed for high-density clusters. The PCB is packed with features, but your eye will be drawn to the red anodized aluminum heatsink which fits over the Compute Module 4 (or compatible), providing a passive means to keep the Pi cool. This could prove useful, should you wish to overclock.

[...] The Compute Blade's strength comes in numbers, more specifically "clusters". Given the small size and blade design of the units, they will easily slide into a blade server and as long as you've got plenty of Raspberry Pi's, you'll have a powerful Arm computing cluster.

With prices starting from $65 for a Compute Blade Basic, the version we have on the bench is the $107 Dev version, which has all the bells and whistles. If you like what you see, then head over to the kickstarter page to make your pledge. [...]

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Opportunist on Friday February 17, @08:06AM (2 children)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Friday February 17, @08:06AM (#1292137)

    The Compute Modules are pretty much the only RPi (aside of the Pico) that isn't total unobtanium. Mostly because there wasn't as much demand for them. Nice to see someone found a way to use them to make them unavailable now, too.

    • (Score: 2) by GloomMower on Friday February 17, @05:58PM (1 child)

      by GloomMower (17961) on Friday February 17, @05:58PM (#1292216)

      Where do you see them in stock? I don't ever see them in stock anywhere.

      I think this can handle other modules designed with the same form factor (pine, orange, etc), but often the drivers are not as good in quality.

      • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday February 19, @05:14PM

        by Opportunist (5545) on Sunday February 19, @05:14PM (#1292578)

        They used to be fairly available. Guess the article already made the round...

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