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There are useful things that don't need a lot of interconnect speed. For example all of those XYZ@home projects (SETI, primes ...), or finding the hash for bitc
by brucehoult 2y ago
There are useful things that don't need a lot of interconnect speed. For example all of those XYZ@home projects (SETI, primes ...), or finding the hash for bitcoin blocks. Those just need aggregate speed and low energy use per computation.
This particular CPU might or might not have instructions needed to make those particular computations efficient, of course.
- jononor 2y agoHow many of them can be done with 2 kB RAM per node? ;) I like this project. It is not very useful - but it does not need to be, nor does it try :D
- dathinab 2y agothis things still need "enough" per-node performance, which potentially involve multiple cores with fast interconnects and definitely involves having enough RAM and cache etc. also while the latency for @home projects are higher the bandwidth of your internet upload/download might be faster then what that cluster has effectively (due to the shared bus) through this doesn't mean anything in the end the project wasn't about creating a faster DIY special purpose compute system at home or anything like that it's about a cool challenging and inspiring tech hobby project