Intro & Specs
Hello and welcome to the Turing Pi V1 documentation.
Turing Pi V1 is a 7 nodes cluster on a mini ITX board. It’s a scale model of bare metal clusters like you see in data centers. The Turing Pi board can be used as a local mini server to host apps, containers, Kubernetes. The Turing Pi also is a great tool for learning cloud-native technologies, Serverless, Microservices on a bare-metal cluster. The Turing Pi top/main node can act as a NAT/Router for the rest of the nodes. If you move the cluster from one location to another, all the node's IPs stay the same.
Some of the Turing Pi V1 features:
- Flash mode - flash RPi compute modules using the Turing Pi board
- Boot mode - boot OS through eMMC or SD card or netboot
Please note, you can use either eMMC or SD card storage. You can't use both options.
- Power management for each node (on/off/reboot)
- Real-time clock (RTC)
- I2C cluster management bus
- Compute modules hot-swap
Specs
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Supported Compute Modules | Raspberry Pi Compute Module 1, 3, 3+ |
| CPU cores, Max. | 28 |
| RAM, Max. | 7GB |
| Internal eMMC, Max. | 224GB |
| Boot from the network (netboot) | Yes, tested with CM3, CM3+, and Hypriot OS v1.11.3 |
| Boot from eMMC | Yes |
| Boot from SD | Yes |
| Compute Modules, Max. QTY | 7x, DDR2 SO-DIMM 200 pin |
| Micro SD slots, QTY | 7x, 1 per node |
| Ethernet Port | 1x, 1Gbps |
| Int. Network Speed, Max. | 1Gbps |
| Node Network Speed | 100Mbps per node |
| Power supply | 12V, 5A, 60 W, 2.1-5.5mm (center positive) |
| Power consumption, Max. | 40 W |
| Board form factor | Mini ITX, 6.7 x 6.7 inches (170 x 170 mm) |
| Mini ITX Power socket 2x2 pin | 12 V |
| Flash port | Only for Master Node via micro USB |
| GPIO 40-pin, RPI compatible pinout | 7x (Standard Raspberry Pi 3 pinouts) |
| HDMI | 1x, Node #1 (Master Node) |
| Audio 3.5 mm | 1x, Node #1 (Master Node) |
| USB 2.0 | 8x |
| RTC battery | CR2032 |
Cluster Management Bus
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| CMB protocol | I2C |
| CMB access | From each node |
| Node Power Management | Yes, via CMB for each node |
| Userspace EEPROM | 128bytes |
| Int. CMB devices | Ethernet Switch, I2C expander, and RTCC |
| External I2C ports | 1x, for additional devices like LCD displays or EEPROM |
Block Scheme
Updated 8 months ago