My office was getting a bit messy so I re-purposed an old PC case and mounted my ARM boards, a switch, and far too many power supplies into it: http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/racked/IMG_20110131_145444.jpg
The Stagecoach board goes where the motherboard used to: http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/racked/IMG_20110131_145403.jpg
It turns out that a PandaBoard fits well in a floppy drive adapter slotted into a 5 1/4" drive bay. 2x PandaBoards, 2x BeagleBoards, and a Stagecoach gives 12 cores for a total of 9.76 GHz of processing... not as cool as David's box, but I like it :)
-- Michael
Neat, did you use anything to secure the pandas and beagles in the drive bays? or are they just sitting there? I was thinking it might be neat to built a frame that would mount to the standard holes in a case for an atx board, but provide slots for pandas. This would give more than ample room for lots of pandas to stack in a case, and leave plenty of room up front for routing things like power and network switches. Keeping the sd card, network ports, serial, etc all accessible is tricky though.
Maybe something to hack on some weekend...
Thanks, Paul Larson
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Michael Hope michael.hope@linaro.orgwrote:
My office was getting a bit messy so I re-purposed an old PC case and mounted my ARM boards, a switch, and far too many power supplies into it: http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/racked/IMG_20110131_145444.jpghttp://people.linaro.org/%7Emichaelh/racked/IMG_20110131_145444.jpg
The Stagecoach board goes where the motherboard used to: http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/racked/IMG_20110131_145403.jpghttp://people.linaro.org/%7Emichaelh/racked/IMG_20110131_145403.jpg
It turns out that a PandaBoard fits well in a floppy drive adapter slotted into a 5 1/4" drive bay. 2x PandaBoards, 2x BeagleBoards, and a Stagecoach gives 12 cores for a total of 9.76 GHz of processing... not as cool as David's box, but I like it :)
-- Michael
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Paul Larson paul.larson@linaro.org wrote:
Neat, did you use anything to secure the pandas and beagles in the drive bays? or are they just sitting there? I was thinking it might be neat to built a frame that would mount to the standard holes in a case for an atx board, but provide slots for pandas. This would give more than ample room for lots of pandas to stack in a case, and leave plenty of room up front for routing things like power and network switches. Keeping the sd card, network ports, serial, etc all accessible is tricky though.
Maybe something to hack on some weekend...
The standard FDD mount holes are in roughly the same place as the holes on the board so I bodged it and twist-tied them down. Plenty secure enough secure. The trays are plastic so nice and easy to work with, so some standoffs and screws would have been simple enough.
Once I started twist-tying things though I just couldn't stop.
Note that the slot in the front of the tray for the FDD lets the SD card and USB port poke through.
-- Michael
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Michael Hope michael.hope@linaro.org wrote:
My office was getting a bit messy so I re-purposed an old PC case and mounted my ARM boards, a switch, and far too many power supplies into it: http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/racked/IMG_20110131_145444.jpg
Neat. But you've got room for _way_ more stuff in there ;)
---Dave
We should try this in the Linaro Cambridge office...
Dave
On 31 Jan 2011, at 11:47, Dave Martin wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Michael Hope michael.hope@linaro.org wrote:
My office was getting a bit messy so I re-purposed an old PC case and mounted my ARM boards, a switch, and far too many power supplies into it: http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/racked/IMG_20110131_145444.jpg
Neat. But you've got room for _way_ more stuff in there ;)
---Dave
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