On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Clay Fiske <c...@bloomcounty.org> wrote: > >> On May 8, 2015, at 10:24 PM, char...@thefnf.org wrote: >> >> Pi dimensions: >> >> 3.37 l (5 front to back) >> 2.21 w (6 wide) >> 0.83 h >> 25 per U (rounding down for Ethernet cable space etc) = 825 pi
The parallella board is about the same size and has interesting properties all by itself. In addition to ethernet it also brings out a lot of pins. http://www.adapteva.com/parallella-board/ there are also various and sundry quad core arm boards in the same form factor. >> Cable management and heat would probably kill this before it ever reached >> completion, but lol… > > > This feels like it should be a Friday thread. :) > > If you’re really going for density: > > - At 0.83 inches high you could go 2x per U (depends on your mounting system > and how much space it burns) > - I’d expect you could get at least 7 wide if not 8 with the right micro-USB > power connector > - In most datacenter racks I’ve seen you could get at least 8 deep even with > cable breathing room > > So somewhere between 7x8x2 = 112 and 8x8x2 = 128 per U. And if you get truly > creative about how you stack them you could probably beat that without too > much effort. > > This doesn’t solve for cooling, but I think even at these numbers you could > probably make it work with nice, tight cabling. Dip them all in a vat of oil. -- Dave Täht Open Networking needs **Open Hardware** https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EricRaymond/posts/JqxCe2pFr67
