03-12-2019, 10:30 AM
If i was going to do something like this i would the RockPro64 as well because i see the real development in the future going there as so far tho it might be behind in some manners to the older board once the mainline support is public i think it will be the best choice. so far in my own development i only see the gpu stack as the only real issue with the mainline kernel support as most of the other issues i don't think are that big.
regarding clustering them , if your ok with building and hacking things i would find some surplus shop and look for a old 19" rack frame with slot rails in it as that way you can just slide the boards in on their edige.... currently i use one in my network rack which is close to my bench and rework stations and its got a bunch of boards slid into it just to keep things off my bench. i built a crappy backplane board that i use to plug the boards into that carries the signals to a custom switcher i built years ago. the whole thing was really just done to clean up and get crap off my bench because i am constantly working on a variety of software and need the boards close by to test stuff. I think i paid like 25bux for the 19" cage years ago from a surplus shop locally.
be creative... and have fun and who says ya need to pay the big bux if you can hack something together yourself.
regarding clustering them , if your ok with building and hacking things i would find some surplus shop and look for a old 19" rack frame with slot rails in it as that way you can just slide the boards in on their edige.... currently i use one in my network rack which is close to my bench and rework stations and its got a bunch of boards slid into it just to keep things off my bench. i built a crappy backplane board that i use to plug the boards into that carries the signals to a custom switcher i built years ago. the whole thing was really just done to clean up and get crap off my bench because i am constantly working on a variety of software and need the boards close by to test stuff. I think i paid like 25bux for the 19" cage years ago from a surplus shop locally.
be creative... and have fun and who says ya need to pay the big bux if you can hack something together yourself.
