Rasberry pi - high density

[clay at bloomcounty.org (Clay Fiske)]

> On May 8, 2015, at 10:24 PM, charles at 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
> 
> 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.


-c