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So, honest question, what kind of workloads and tasks would a box built from this motherboard be good for? Video or audio editing? CAD? 3d Rendering? Programmin
by korethr 11y ago
So, honest question, what kind of workloads and tasks would a box built from this motherboard be good for? Video or audio editing? CAD? 3d Rendering? Programming? Assuming the hardware is up to the task, cool, now what about the software?
In my years working IT, it seems to me that by and large, the professional software for tasks you'd throw an expensive workstation at (CAD, 3d rendering, etc) has by and large migrated to being targeted for x86 Windows boxen, because that's what their clients have. For some tasks (audio/video production) some software still targets macs, but that's about it from what I've seen.
I'm tempted to try to pick up a couple of these to see if I can turn them into something useful, but the rare power user or hobbyist doesn't seem like enough demand to sustain development of a product like this, as cool as it might be. Is there some niche somewhere that I am not aware of where something like this would be useful? Enough for someone to buy enough of these to sustain further development and production?
- whorleater 11y agoI'm actually pretty interested in this as a potential form of cheap(ish) HPC. I do a lot of stellar simulations and other computational astrophysics stuff, I think a couple of these might be able to stand in when I don't necessarily feel like dealing with the campus supercomputer for a small task. Although in terms of marketability, I'd say that products like these might fulfill the gap between traditional farms <-> giant supercomputers.