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There are a lot of industrial and commercial applications. My interest though is in running a low power cluster at home for testing random applications that I b
by mataug 5y ago
There are a lot of industrial and commercial applications. My interest though is in running a low power cluster at home for testing random applications that I build.
For example I'm writing an app for hosting documentation for household items and integrating it with a label printer. It would be great if I could host this and many other applications locally on a K8s cluster instead of stringing together a bunch of raspberry pis with a network switch, or hosting it on a cloud service
- donkeyd 5y ago> It would be great if I could host this and many other applications locally on a K8s cluster instead of stringing together a bunch of raspberry pis with a network switch, or hosting it on a cloud service. Pardon my ignorance, but why couldn't you run this on a NUC or a NAS? Do you need HA for testing random apps? Or is it just that this is more fun and a learning experience?
- cameron_b 5y agoMy interest in this space is in the opportunity to test assumptions when scaling wide. Those of us without University compute access or Cloud budgets ( like neighborhood STEM classes ) can plunk down for a desktop learning environment that can run k8s or slurm and you can learn / teach MPI programming patterns with hands-on, and minimal risk.
- mataug 5y agoYes a NUC or NAS could do the job as well, so my interest is more of a fun learning experience.