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Bought myself an Ampere Altra system

(marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)
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a_t48 ◴[] No.44419988[source]
A few years ago I was working at a place that needed to do builds targeting the Jetson platform, and was somewhat allergic to tossing it into the cloud due to cost. We ran the numbers and the Altra paid for itself pretty quickly. Great thing, it ripped through our C++ builds + Docker image creation - I think we ended up with a 64 core version (don't remember through who, but we needed a server form factor). Ended up still moving our release builds to the cloud, due to some dicey internet situations but for local builds this thing was A+. I hope they're still using it.
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dingdingdang ◴[] No.44421645[source]
Sounds good, but also sounds odd that a dicey internet situation caused you to move to the cloud as opposed to local (I guess could be dicey uplink for remote team or similar)
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1. wffurr ◴[] No.44422073[source]
Sending an ssh command vs uploading an entire release binary.