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Workstation-class machines are very much available, at workstation-class prices. You can buy a 64-core 7985WX Threadripper Pro with Nvidia RTX6000 and 256GB RA
by TheOtherHobbes 2y ago
Workstation-class machines are very much available, at workstation-class prices.
You can buy a 64-core 7985WX Threadripper Pro with Nvidia RTX6000 and 256GB RAM for $30k or so.
Upgrade to an A100 if you're in a hurry.
They're not unusual in commercial video and animation, machine learning, and general science/engineering.
TBH you could reasonably class the $4k M3Ultra Mac Studio as a low-end workstation-grade machine for some tasks.
- ofrzeta 2y agoThis might not be the most rational thing to say but I think "workstation" means "Unix workstation" which means "non-x86".
- ido 2y agoThe aforementioned mac is Unix on RISC!
- ofrzeta 2y agoThat is true :) So Apple has become the last remaining Unix workstation vendor?
- ido 2y agoIt doesn't take much to get the price up to low 5-figure USD (inflation UN-adjusted similar to lower end SUN workstation prices)...Max CPU and max RAM already bring you to $10k without a monitor.
- datadrivenangel 2y agoand those color graded monitors are expensive!
- nullpoint420 2y agoI don’t mean to be a downer, but it is XNU (X is not Unix) on RISC. “or as I like to call it, XNU/RISC”
- os2warpman 2y agoIt isn't Unix. It is UNIX. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3710.htm https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3710.htm
- nullpoint420 2y agoApologies, I should have said "XNU stands for X is Not UNIX." Someone should update the docs at Apple! [0] [0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Porting/Conceptual/PortingUnix/glossary/glossary.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002859-SW19 https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Po...