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Wait, since when is using several separate machines an acceptable way of computing? And especially counting total RAM as if all of it can be used when needed?
by bserge 5y ago
Wait, since when is using several separate machines an acceptable way of computing? And especially counting total RAM as if all of it can be used when needed?
I've been doing that for a decade now (for cheapness mostly) and people said it was stupid and worse than a single computer with the same number of cores and RAM.
Also would those chips need heatsinks and cooling?
- toast0 5y agoUsing several separate machines is what you have to do when your computing needs don't fit in a single computer. Of course, the total computing power here would fit in a single x86 computer, but it can be fun to play with clustering and this might be a lot less expensive than an x86 cluster.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> Wait, since when is using several separate machines an acceptable way of computing? And especially counting total RAM as if all of it can be used when needed? It brings joy to Pi owners. There's more to the Pi than just the hardware.
- gh02t 5y agoSupercomputers have been built like that for a long time (decades) now, albeit with ultra-fast networking and storage to back them. There is a whole lot of research and money poured into specialized algorithms and software optimized for distributed machines. And that's far the only form of distributed computing in use.