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Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by pachico »

th3h4mm3r wrote: post #3

What could you do with a similar setup? I mean: what's the purpose and/or the advantages compared to a "classical" solution ?

I have a friend that uses similar setups to tech kubernetess but previously he also used it as example for all sorts of distributed computing (when Hadoop was still a cool thing to do)

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by throwaway4good »

throwaway4good wrote: post #9

Looks like fun ... but I am getting the new Mac Mini.

Thanks for the deserved downvotes.

But in terms for actual cost and performance; how does this compare in terms of peak performance, power consumption and actual total cost to mass produced quality hardware like the Apple Mac Mini?

I don't the actual numbers but I have the feeling it won't fare that well.

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by Tepix »

th3h4mm3r wrote: post #3

What could you do with a similar setup? I mean: what's the purpose and/or the advantages compared to a "classical" solution ?

If you need a cheap dedicated (for privacy) server to run a mail server and perhaps a private cloud with Nextcloud, this is ideal.

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

#14

Post by Tepix »

throwaway4good wrote: post #12
throwaway4good wrote: post #9

Looks like fun ... but I am getting the new Mac Mini.

Thanks for the deserved downvotes. But in terms for actual cost and performance; how does this compare in terms of peak performance, power consumption and actual total cost to mass produced quality hardware like the Apple Mac Mini? I don't the actual numbers but I have the feeling it won't fare that well.

For starters it has 14x 8GB RAM, 7TB SSD, 14x GBit and 14x4 A72 cores. Not too shabby.

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

throwaway4good wrote: post #12
throwaway4good wrote: post #9

Looks like fun ... but I am getting the new Mac Mini.

Thanks for the deserved downvotes. But in terms for actual cost and performance; how does this compare in terms of peak performance, power consumption and actual total cost to mass produced quality hardware like the Apple Mac Mini? I don't the actual numbers but I have the feeling it won't fare that well.

Obviously in terms of single-core performance your Mac (or any desktop system for that matter) will always do better. As for actual power consumption, it always depends on the load and additional devices connected to the Pis. The only easily comparable aspect is the price, but it's meaningless on its own.

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

#16

Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

canofbars wrote: post #4
th3h4mm3r wrote: post #3

What could you do with a similar setup? I mean: what's the purpose and/or the advantages compared to a "classical" solution ?

Its cool and fun and teaches you a skill at a low price point. There is essentially no functional reason to do this over a single high power server unless for some reason you need a bunch of ARM servers for something.

A good functional reason is when you need to have high redundancy for low-intensity jobs while keeping power consumption ridiculously low. As long as you don't use SD cards, Pis can run for years without stability issues.

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by throwaway4good »

Tepix wrote: post #14
throwaway4good wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the deserved downvotes. But in terms for actual cost and performance; how does this compare in terms of peak performance, power consumption and actual total cost to mass produced quality hardware like the Apple Mac Mini? I don't the actual numbers but I have the feeling it won't fare that well.

For starters it has 14x 8GB RAM, 7TB SSD, 14x GBit and 14x4 A72 cores. Not too shabby.

For practical purposes 8 high performance cores will be much more performant that 56 cores with lower performance; in particular if the cores are spread over 14 physical machines.

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by rovr138 »

throwaway4good wrote: post #17
Tepix wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For starters it has 14x 8GB RAM, 7TB SSD, 14x GBit and 14x4 A72 cores. Not too shabby.

For practical purposes 8 high performance cores will be much more performant that 56 cores with lower performance; in particular if the cores are spread over 14 physical machines.

That depends on the task.

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by intricatedetail »

I tried to setup something like this, but let's be frank. The performance of this thing makes this largely pointless. I was able to learn much more by setting up virtual machines and configuring them into a cluster. Only advantage of RPi cluster is that you can physically pull the Ethernet plug and test the failures. But that's more like a "fun" factor rather that utility.
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