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Not when you factor in performance per watt.
http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/group/green_machines.html
I’d love to see the M1 on this list.
Raspberry Pi Server Mark III
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#103Pi's don't last as long as traditional hardware, but if you are running a self-healing cluster of machines, why wouldn't you use this for production environments?
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Right now, yeah. But if this tech trend (miniature, low power, cheap, commodity) continues and we can run our apps on them ... it might be a game changer. No?
Hu no. "Low power" , "cheap" and "commodity" already describes retail computers since almost 30 years. Why do so many people want to see a higher purpose in any fun experiment? Can't it just be that, a fun and cool hobby project?
Just for a different perspective, I grew up in a very low income household, and the Pi was the only computer I was able to convince my mum to get me as an early teenager. "Cheap" is relative, and I disagree that the Pi wasn't a big step forward in terms of price on the very low-end.
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#105What is a use case for this if any?
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You could rent a couple of 1USD/month VPS, or if really on a budget rent a bunch of containers with ipv6 for just a few cents
You absolutely could. But you wouldn't learn how to build a system that recovers from yanking a power or network cable, wouldn't own it, and wouldn't be able to run it on your terms. You'd need a credit card with an American-run payments network to operate, with a declared identity and a bank account, for which a prerequisite is a few months of stable living and income in a particular jurisdiction, itself something l…
Someone needs to invent a way to drop things off your desk onto a power switch via ssh.
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I challenge you to find a single application where a setup of 14 raspberry pi's will beat the new mac mini.
Controlling several hundred WS2812B LED strips, perhaps? Or a kiosk with 14 HDMI displays.
Sure. But wouldn't you then put the computer inside the display?
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#108Running a 6 node cluster of Pi4s at home now. Did some benchmarks. Long story short. USB thumb drive boot disks are better performance and cheaper than SD cards. Fans are completely unnecessary on a Pi4 with an aluminum heat shield style "case". They do run hotter than with a fan, but they will not be heat throttled with recent firmware.
>Fans are completely unnecessary on a Pi4 with an aluminum heat shield style "case". They do run hotter than with a fan, but they will not be heat throttled with recent firmware.
1 x 4k@60hz with no case and alu heat shield and my RPI4 does throttle. Latest firmware. Seems you don't punish it enough.
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#109What is a use case for this if any?
There isn't one. For actually delivering an application, a traditional server is better in every way, unless your application is so small that you are wasting your hardware and get killed on power costs.
It's more or less the same as the people in /r/homelab who have full server racks in their basements but never do anything with most of their eBay servers other than install CentOS on them. At least those can serve movies via Plex, though.
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#110Running a 6 node cluster of Pi4s at home now. Did some benchmarks. Long story short. USB thumb drive boot disks are better performance and cheaper than SD cards. Fans are completely unnecessary on a Pi4 with an aluminum heat shield style "case". They do run hotter than with a fan, but they will not be heat throttled with recent firmware.
>Fans are completely unnecessary on a Pi4 with an aluminum heat shield style "case". They do run hotter than with a fan, but they will not be heat throttled with recent firmware. 1 x 4k@60hz with no case and alu heat shield and my RPI4 does throttle. Latest firmware. Seems you don't punish it enough.
That's the GPU which I would expect to be fairly idle on a cluster of any sort unless you're doing GPU computing (and then why are you using a Pi?)