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As part of our work enabling OpenHPC I needed a small, cheap, testbed cluster for development, testing, and continuous integration builds. Larger enterprise systems were on order, but expediency required a more "creative" solution. I put together a small ODROID-C2 cluster with < $500 parts with 6 nodes (a management node, a head node, and 4 MPI worker nodes) -- with the ability to monitor and control the power for everything except for the management node. Everything except for the management node network boots so they can have their OS and root file system swapped out. And the whole thing fits in a 6x5x3 inch footprint (well slightly more when you include the switch, the USB power supply and the power strip). This configuration is based on Cortex-A53, so it is the "little" Lab in a box.
I figure this configuration might be useful for others, so I'm going to document the materials, configuration and scripts in this repository. As I get time/materials I'll also document building a slightly larger configuration out of A57 or A72s (named Big) and a proper server based configuration (named Enterprise).
Configurations:
- little
- Big (TBD)
- Enterprise (TBD)