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You'd be hard pressed to find an old laptop with 32GB of RAM, and a laptop doesn't provide the same operational conditions experienced by a cluster of 4 compute
by barumi 6y ago
You'd be hard pressed to find an old laptop with 32GB of RAM, and a laptop doesn't provide the same operational conditions experienced by a cluster of 4 computers communicating over a network connection.
Scaling horizontally presents entirely new classes of challenges that aren't experienced while scaling vertically.
- ianhowson 6y agoCouldn't you buy four 10 year old laptops?
- barumi 6y agoAnyone can buy a brand new raspberry pi 4 with 4GB of RAM for around 50€, which fits on the palm of your hand. You can even get them delivered to your doorstep with a few mouse clicks. The same can't really be said for 10 year old laptops.
- rasz 6y agoYes, for the former you have to walk across the room and dig in the closet, optionally ask friends.
- rasz 6y agoThinkPad W530 fits the bill quite well. Broken screen puts it at around $100-150, $300 gets you fully working one. Less tyhan 4 CM4 modules, and what about Turing Pi 2 case? power supply? >Scaling horizontally presents entirely new classes of challenges that aren't experienced while scaling vertically. Pay more for challenges? If you really want to fight with bad scaling just run a VM.