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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

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468 points speckx | 4 comments | 19 Sep 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.259s | source
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elzbardico ◴[19 Sep 25 14:42 UTC] No.45302213[source]▶
Frankly, always thought about Pi Clusters as a nerd indulgence, something to play, not to do serious work.
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1. NitpickLawyer ◴[19 Sep 25 14:48 UTC] No.45302277[source]▶
It reminds me of the Beowulf clusters of the 90s-2000s, that were all the rage at some point, then slowly lost ground... I remember many friends tinkering with some variant of those, we had one in Uni, and there were even some linux distros dedicated to the concept.
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2. gary_0 ◴[19 Sep 25 15:04 UTC] No.45302447[source]▶
Oh yeah, the "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" Slashdot meme! I miss those days. At least the "can it run Doom?" meme is still alive and kicking.
3. unregistereddev ◴[19 Sep 25 15:48 UTC] No.45302961[source]▶
Ditto! It reminded me of the time in college when I built a Beowulf cluster from recently-retired Pentium II desktops.

Was it fast? No. But that wasn't the point. I was learning about distributed computing.

4. dekhn ◴[19 Sep 25 18:30 UTC] No.45304853[source]▶
Beowulf style clusters went on to dominate supercomputing.