PicoCluster is known for making ARM clusters, with a selection of Raspberry Pi, oDroid or Pine64 platforms, switches and connections to the outside world in an acrylic cube. They recently worked with Marvell MRVL 39,48 +0,85 +2,20% and Enea to create the PicoPod.
The cluster uses 6 MACCIATObin development boards featuring the Marvell Armada 8040 Quad-core Cortex-A72 64-bit SoC, 2x 10Gb Ethernet ports and up to 16GB of RAM. These link with a 10Gb/s switch using Marvell’s Prestera DX architecture. All packaged with a power supply in PicoClusters’s unique acrylic case. This exposes their inner workings, as with all PicoCluster builds the devices inside are caseless.
From a software perspective, the cluster runs OPNFV Danube, integrated for the environment by Enea Unfortunately, we could not get stock quote STO:ENEA this time.. Enea with their experience in NFV management tools ensures a compliant NFV test cluster. They also run a Pharos lab to help test the ARM environments for OPNFV. The community can expand the testing process using tools like the PicoPod. Especially since a fully assembled NFV PicoPod is available for $5,000.
See the Press Releases on this from Enea and a blog post by PicoCluster, as well as a blog from the ARM Community.