2 ms·

To acquire, maybe, but to power?

• whimsicalism 10mo ago
  machine capex currently dominates power
  • amazingman 10mo ago
    Sounds like an ecosystem ripe for horizontally scaling cheaper hardware.
    • crote 10mo ago
      If I understand correctly, a big problem is that the calculation isn't embarrasingly parallel: the various chunks are not independent, so you need to do a lot of IO to get the results from step N from your neighbours to calculate step N+1. Using more smaller nodes means your cross-node IO is going to explode. You might save money on your compute hardware, but I wouldn't be surprised if you'd end up with an even greater cost increase on the network hardware side.