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i think you will lose in the end this way if you actually factor in power costs.
Yup, 6x old i5 thinkpads will require more space, more power and will likely be more expensive than 6x Pi.
I host a lot out of my house on a T430S with a cracked screen.
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One issue I have with going the VPS route is that what I'm charged is often not what I'm expecting. I will use estimation calculators and figure my bill will be $25/month (which I get for a couple months) and then suddenly get a $120 bill. This has happened more than once and has had me loose all confidence in these services for hobby projects. I'd rather just buy a Pi cluster at this point.
Sounds like AWS or one of the big guys. The smaller providers usually have an all in price for a VPS with a fixed amount of rosources, no surprises. Lightsail is similar but kind of sucks.
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This sounds like some kind of fantasy; how many people without stable living conditions or without a bank account that can be processed by the US are concerned with...cluster computing? "What about all the homeless Iranian Ferrari owners!" doesn't seem like much of a rallying cry.
Surely if there is even 1 unbanked person in existence that is interested in cluster computing, then this is a worthwhile endeavour.
Or maybe to Don Quixote, but he was famously delusional.
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Surely if there is even 1 unbanked person in existence that is interested in cluster computing, then this is a worthwhile endeavour.
No, absolutely not. Or maybe to Don Quixote, but he was famously delusional.
Why there is so much love for such project where someone connected a couple of ready made things (maybe except the case) and everyone gets excited?
Every step deeper, or obscure loses you more and more mass appeal.
Therefore, projects with high max appeal make it to the top of lists like HN. It's no conspiracy.
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No, absolutely not. Or maybe to Don Quixote, but he was famously delusional.
Is there any number of unbanked people showing interest in cluster computing that would change your opinion?
It's the same here.
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Yup, 6x old i5 thinkpads will require more space, more power and will likely be more expensive than 6x Pi.
I'd take 6 old ThinkPad over 6 new Pi any day. :) I host a lot out of my house on a T430S with a cracked screen.
In the case of Raspberry Pi it is pretty normal nowadays to connect a bunch of them into a cluster and have some fun. In fact, it has become so popular, that you u can find stackable cluster cases and other Pi cluster hardware on amazon.
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I think recent firmwares would allow Sd-card-less pxe boot. I was wondering the other day if you could then run the whole system from RAM disk only and/or maybe mount volumes via iSCSI from SAN (keeping in mind limitations of RPi 1Gb nic). Edit: someone has done this already. Of course! :) ( https://tech.xlab.si/blog/pxe-boot-raspberry-pi-iscsi/ )
Could also use the sd card to boot only, then pass everything to a USB3 SSD.
Why there is so much love for such project where someone connected a couple of ready made things (maybe except the case) and everyone gets excited?
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Is there any number of unbanked people showing interest in cluster computing that would change your opinion?
I "show an interest" in space, but I'm not entitled/deluded enough to expect someone to deliver a shuttle to me, because that would be a waste of time/materials/energy/money. It's the same here.
Also you are comparing a space shuttle to a few raspberry pis, hardly apples with apples.