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You can get a 480-core x86 server with 32TB of RAM right now if you want, but I have a hard time seeing the utility of such a thing. Having one giant thing that
by jeffbee 2y ago
You can get a 480-core x86 server with 32TB of RAM right now if you want, but I have a hard time seeing the utility of such a thing. Having one giant thing that costs $500k and fails as one unit never seemed terribly convenient to me.
- inhumantsar 2y agoI'd guess that's for shops that are severally space and power constrained relative to their needs and/or need to move around immense amounts of compute. eg: sports media that need to ship container-offices around the world three times a year. Two of those, one as a cold spare, running immutable OS images, a honking big disk array, and thin clients or laptops. simplifies HVAC, power, noise control, and networking requirements, plus it's only one system to test, validate, and secure, vs a bunch of workstations.
- riku_iki 2y agoUtility is intense offline data crunching, which will be much more cost efficient and less complex than equal cloud based or self hosted distributed setup.