Turing Pi 2 board for Raspberry Pi cluster raises million euros in a day
Turing Pi posted the second version of its cluster computer board on Kickstarter Monday evening. The Turing Pi 2 has raised almost a million euros within twenty hours. A Turing Pi 2 board currently costs $210 on Kickstarter.
The Turing Pi 2 will be available as a mini-ITX board, allowing users to combine up to four compute modules for a single cluster. The Turing Pi 2 also offers support for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and Nvidia’s Jetson Nano, TX2 NX and Xavier NX modules.
It is possible to combine several of those compute modules on the Turing Pi 2 board. The cluster board gets SATA ports, RJ45 connections for gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 ports and mPCIe sockets. The board can be expanded with modules for WiFi, Bluetooth, 4G and 5G, LoRa and Zigbee. The Turing Pi 2 currently costs around $210 on Kickstarter, with delivery expected in September. That amount does not include compute modules; users have to purchase them separately.
The company also comes with its own compute module, the Turing RK1. That module gets a Rockchip RK3588-soc with four Cortex-A76 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores. That module can be equipped with up to 32GB of memory and will have a PCIe 3.0 interface. The Turing RK1 will also provide support for the Turing Pi 2. The company will share few details about the RK1 compute module.
Users can use the Turing Pi 2 with various compute modules, among other things, to host services, the manufacturer writes. For example, users can use services such as Home Assistant and Nextcloud or, for example, run a Minecraft server on a cluster, Turing Pi mentions as examples. The board supports software such as Kubernetes, Prometheus and Docker.
Source: Turing Pi 2