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Imagine instead of 6 Pi's this was 6 M2 arm chips on a mini-ITX board.

• dis-sys 4y ago
  That would cost 6 arms and 6 legs.
  • alberth 4y ago
    As a thought experiment, so the: - 8GB Pi cost $75 (Geekbench score of 318 single / 808 multi-core) - 8GB M1 Mac mini cost $699 (Geek bench score of 1752 single / 7718 multi-core) This isn't too far off linearly price scaling. The M1 Mac mini costs 9.3x more, but get 5.5x faster single-core & 9.5x faster multi-core. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15902536 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15902536 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15912650 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15912650
    • rbanffy 4y ago
      > The M1 Mac mini costs 9.3x more, but get 5.5x faster single-core & 9.5x faster multi-core. It's not always that we get a Mac that has a better price/performance than any other computer ;-) Their M-series is quite remarkable.
• rbanffy 4y ago
  I find these boards - that get little boards and network them into a cluster - very interesting. I'd like to see more of these in the future. I hope someone makes a Framework-compatible motherboard with these at some point. The Intel Edison module could have been a viable building block for one (and it happened a long time ago in computing terms - 2014) - it was self-contained, with RAM and storage on the module - but it lacked ethernet to connect multiple ones on a board - and I don't remember it having a fast external bus to build a network on. And it was quickly discontinued.
• kllrnohj 4y ago
  You can get things like Epyc mini-ITX boards ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/16277/asrock-rack-deep-mini-itx-romed4id-2t https://www.anandtech.com/show/16277/asrock-rack-deep-mini-i... ) if you're just looking to ramp up the compute in a tiny space. Divide it up into 6 VMs if you still want it to be a cluster even.