Renowned DIY gadget YouTuber, Bitluni, has built his very own RISC-V megacluster, featuring a "compact" design and some pretty interesting stuff.
Apparently, You Can Build Your Very Own Megacluster Using RISC-V, Make Sure To Manage Your Bus Connections Correctly DIY instances are exciting to see, particularly those revolving around the tech industry since they show us the untapped potential of specific products or devices, and in this case, the RISC-V architecture itself.
Well, Bitluni's experiment here isn't simple since it involves dealing with multiple superclusters. Related Story Chinese Startup Unveils The First RISC-V Based AI CPU, Powers The K1 Domestic Laptop His idea was to accommodate 16 of these superclusters onto a single interface, but that became unmanageable later on, so he designed his very own "cluster blade", which had two microcontrollers mounted on the board, each of them managing one supercluster on top of it.
Through the cluster blade, he managed to give each supercluster its bus interface. Each of the cluster blades had two CH32V203 microcontrollers mounted, and Bitluni combined eight of them to form one big uniform layer.
The assembly process involved soldering each microcontroller onto the circuit board and then attaching the GPIO pins to start his design's testing phase.