but how long before these 160 cores of Ampere variety ARM servers will be entirely affordable prices for at least the average hner?
the most recent NetApp filer I was paid to evaluate for a fairly large business customer, is being sold at a price that I realised isn't actually so ridiculous for my home lab use. The amount of time expended on related work involved with using cloud computing for even very occasionally run jobs has put the likes of these Ampere servers very much inside the bounds of reasonable, even thoroughly sensible, reason for private acquisition. My first thought was "if only I was even ten years younger I'd advertise a house share and load a room with a couple of racks and dump all the interactions involved with setting up what I'm doing in the cloud for higher quality interaction with some housemates who have projects that could turn my practical investment into something much more interesting" I think a ratio of 128 cores per person feels about right?
the most recent NetApp filer I was paid to evaluate for a fairly large business customer, is being sold at a price that I realised isn't actually so ridiculous for my home lab use. The amount of time expended on related work involved with using cloud computing for even very occasionally run jobs has put the likes of these Ampere servers very much inside the bounds of reasonable, even thoroughly sensible, reason for private acquisition. My first thought was "if only I was even ten years younger I'd advertise a house share and load a room with a couple of racks and dump all the interactions involved with setting up what I'm doing in the cloud for higher quality interaction with some housemates who have projects that could turn my practical investment into something much more interesting" I think a ratio of 128 cores per person feels about right?