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Although individual Chromebooks are pretty low-powered, having a 2 core Celeron or equivalent and ~4GB of RAM, they consume relatively little power and could po
by nateb2022 3y ago
Although individual Chromebooks are pretty low-powered, having a 2 core Celeron or equivalent and ~4GB of RAM, they consume relatively little power and could possibly serve as the backbone of some compute clusters.
In fact, power/performance of most Chromebooks is pretty competitive compared to a Raspberry Pi, and you can find a lot of Chromebooks priced less than a equivalent SBC like the RPi. Being x86-64, Chromebooks also are able to run a lot more software without the emulation that ARM processors require.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoHere's an submission on just that, a Dell Chromebook cluster. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871338 I myself had a small Kubernetes cluster of Chromeboxes for quite a while. I eventually upgraded to mini-PCs basically because they were so cheap at the time and were much faster, even though I didn't really need it.