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There’s another video on his channel where he tries to answer why he built it: https://youtu.be/OSGLrzSuCtM https://youtu.be/OSGLrzSuCtM It sounds like a bunc
by apantel 2y ago
There’s another video on his channel where he tries to answer why he built it:
https://youtu.be/OSGLrzSuCtM https://youtu.be/OSGLrzSuCtM
It sounds like a bunch of little pet projects that could be run on a very small cluster. I think he just has a lot of money to burn on what is essentially a curiosity, where the scale of the system necessitates all of the complexity in it… but it doesn’t actually DO anything of importance besides run. It’s not like he had workloads and needed a setup of that scale. The setup IS the workload.
It’s like the marble machine. The build is for the build’s sake.
- eternityforest 2y agoWhat could someone do with it? Aside from running a backend for a DIY startup which sounds Very Not Fun. There's gotta be at least a few dozen of these crazy homelabs out there, is anyone writing software specifically targeting them? Maybe the distributed computing projects if those are still a thing?
- fragmede 2y ago> Very Not Fun Maybe not to you, but people will find things fun that others don't. UnRaid is but one of many homelab OS choices.
- defrost 2y agoI've seen many parallels to this in many domains, it's a "home" version of serious commercial setups that serves to keep in touch with bleeding edge setups, to experiment with the common place Vs the off beat and so on. If that is what this is then it doesn't need much purpose besides that alone. Chemists, mechanical engineers, and many other similar types have been known to have "home labs" that are mini commercial grade setups similar to what they work with or routinely setup | tear down.
- citizenpaul 2y agoIts the nerd version of a 1000 horsepower 4 wheel drive extended cab extended bed truck that sits in an office parking garage 99% of its life.