1. System Architecture

 The prototype consists of the main control blade, compute blade, switching backplane, heat dissipation system, power supply, and chassis.

1.1  main control blade

By the advantage of PCIe networking, we can unified the system-on-board (SoB) connection and the cloud cluster topologies into one single and simple architecture, which we named as Cloud-on-Board (CoB) Architecture.

In the CoB architecture, we can connect CPU directly without additional adapters.

1.2  compute blade

1.3 switching backplaner

2. Hardware Design

3.1 Cloud-on-Board (CoB) Architecture

For general computing, we introduce the CoB with three major components:

1) Edge Computing Module (ECM): CPU+RAM+OS SSD combo,

2) Edge Base Board (EB2): for PCIe Data Fabric,

3) Edge Adapter Module (EAM): PCIe-compatible Device, such as GPU, NIC, SSD etc.

Licensing

• GNU/common license