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I've been tempted several times to build a small cluster of low-power boards for a compute cluster. Not that I have much direct use for that at the moment. I

by ansible 11y ago

I've been tempted several times to build a small cluster of low-power boards for a compute cluster. Not that I have much direct use for that at the moment. I recently got a new laptop with 16GB of RAM, so just running 8 VMs with 1GB of RAM each still leaves plenty left for development. With the VMs, I can just run regular 64-bit Linux, so that makes software and setup a non-issue. I've got so many other projects on the back-burner I shouldn't even be reading about this sort of thing. But it does look fun!

icpmacdo 11y ago
With 1GB of ram there are no problems running 64bit linux? I thought you needed 4+.
- ansible 11y ago
  Yes, you can run 64-bit Linux with even less if you like, and that is quite common. [0] More RAM is always nice, of course. [0] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
- jqm 11y ago
  Other way around. You need 64bit to use more than 4GB ram.