Building a chassis for a 19" 1U four node cluster of StarFive VisionFive2 boards. Getting the boards set up with a clean Debian Trixie install on on-board NVME storage was treated in the previous post. Now we need to create an enclosure that will fit four of these boards in a single unit of a shallow 19" wall-mounted rack. Why the dimensions? First of all, organising computers and switches and the like in a 19" rack is just convenient.

A house without a cluster is just a house. In order to run mail, website, git, batch processing and whatever other services you can imagine needing servers in the basement for, I set out to find an interesting and exciting while still economical solution. Bit of background Through my career I have worked with many hardware architectures. I have written assembly for x86, Sparc, UltraSparc, PA-RISC, Power2, Power PC, Alpha and other processors over the years and I have written high performance software for all of them in higher level languages too (Fortran, C, C++).