#TuringPi2 #SFF case coming in August:

https://turingpi.com/tpi-case-current-status/

My #TuringPi2 has arrived! Now all I need is four Raspberry Pi CM4’s in order to use it. I’ve been trying for a year to buy them; but luck. Now what?

Finally the #TuringPi2 arrived and the wait is over after 5 or 6 months or something. But since I don't have any compute modules, it will stay as a fancy paperweight for a while.

Someone commented on the #TuringPi2 delay:

"It happens: A vendor not properly handling a last-minute voltage change was the root cause of Apollo 13's explosion, after all."

What a relief!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/turingpi/turing-pi-cluster-board/posts/3725544?comment=Q29tbWVudC0zOTAyOTY2OA%3D%3D

Late #TuringPi2 is late.

“Delay due to RTC battery problem”

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/turingpi/turing-pi-cluster-board/posts/3725544

And here we go: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/turing-pi-2/

A blog post about the Turing Pi 2 cluster board, which can be used to hold up to four Raspberry Pi CM4 and some Nvidia Jetson modules.
I'm also describing how I arrived at wanting to run 8 small SBCs in my Homelab.

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And all of the hosts have now been added to the Nomad cluster.

Before -> After

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And final deployment reached. Now for the actual fun part of adding those 8 CM4 to my Nomad cluster. 🥳

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First Turing Pi 2 encased. 🙂

One problem: My PSU doesn't switch on until the first Pi is switched on. So the power button on the case doesn't actually work.

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Finished setting up the CM4 modules. All are netbooting fine. Now onto deploying the boards. I think I might have gone a bit overboard with the cases. 😅

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Hmpf. My testnode doesn't come up again after running "apt upgrade". The one annoying thing about netbooting is that the debuggability isn't too great.

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All 8 CM4 on the two boards boot without problem. Next step is running a full system upgrade on all of them.

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Here we go: First board with four CM4 8GB, all netbooted, up and running. 🎉

Next step: Doing the same with the second board to verify everything works there as well.

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Back to the TP2 setup. 🙂 After having figured out basic access and static MACs yesterday, today I will:
- Check how to do SSH - hopefully I can create users
- Configure static DHCP
- Figure out whether the BMC has enough storage to run Ansible against it
- Connect the second board, test it and also configure the BMC

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First fooooo of the night: Connecting my USB-to-UART converter to the Turing Pi's BMC, but not getting a TTY device. Debugging ensues.

Turns out: My custom, pared down kernel simply didn't have the necessary driver. 🤦

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First node is up and successfully netbooted. Currently still annoying: The BMC gets a different MAC every time you power it on or off.

Only the BMC's web interface is accessible by default, but it allows e.g. switching on/off power for each individual node.

Next step, connecting to the serial console of the BMC and looking around. It's OpenBMC, so basically Linux.

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And here they are. I've got two Turing Pi 2 Cluster boards. Each with four CM4 adapters, adapting the SODIMM on the board to the CM4 connector. And I've got 8 8GB CM4.

Plan for tonight:
- Eat
- Connect both boards to power, checking whether their BMC comes up properly
- Try it out with a single CM4 to make sure both boards work

I'm embarrassingly excited right now.

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My two Turing Pi 2 arrived! 🎉 Alas, I have to go grocery shopping first, lest I starve. 😑 Damn you, adult life!

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New update on #TuringPi2

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/turingpi/turing-pi-cluster-board/posts/3672048

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#TuringPi2 is nearing: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/turingpi/turing-pi-cluster-board/posts/3658072

I suspect that'd actually happen early December, but still so close.

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