I like your "dream machines" - reminds me of one of mine: 8 stacked cube ThermalTake V1 aka megacube (supposedly they are designed to do this) best mini-itx m

I like your "dream machines" - reminds me of one of mine: 8 stacked cube ThermalTake V1 aka megacube (supposedly they are designed to do this) best mini-itx mobo in each with highest-end CPU per and max RAM; 7 as netboot, 1 as master highest-end NVidia GPU in the master, with the remainder filled with the best NVidia TPUs or whatever instead of video cards fans and lights as needed/wanted Essentially to end up with one helluva nice TensorFlow box. I just can't justify the space, power, cost, etc that it would take to build such a beast. It would really be "for show" because it honestly could be made much smaller with probably better cooling and such with a proper case. I haven't really priced it out - just a dream that will remain so. Now - on a different level - and something I do intend to try - is what I call my "Poor man's Jetson TX" design: Basically take a cheap Mini-ITX motherboard, drop a decent CPU in it (something fast with 4-8 cores), put 8-16 gig of RAM in it, then take a NVidia 750 TI SC Mini and mount it horizontally over the CPU and such (use a 1U server cooler for the CPU), using one of those flexible PCIe x16 risers. I've got all the parts to try it. It would be nice for running models for an embedded system, and costs way less than the real deal. I don't think it's as powerful, but I think it would come close. Nor maybe not as efficient - not sure. But cheap - very cheap.