The collab nobody knew we needed. I took my 6-node Raspberry Pi cluster to @ServeTheHome and faced it off against a 128-core monster ARM server.

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Mentioned in this video:

– ServeTheHome (website): https://www.servethehome.com
– ServeTheHome (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/ServeTheHomeVideo
– The video Patrick has is the “Supermicro ARS-210ME-FNR”, with the M128-30 CPU
– DeskPi Super6c [Amazon]: https://amzn.to/3AH8kNh
– DeskPi Super6c [Direct]: https://deskpi.com/collections/deskpi-super6c/products/deskpi-super6c-raspberry-pi-cm4-cluster-mini-itx-board-6-rpi-cm4-supported
– DeskPi Super6c Mini ITX case [Amazon]: https://amzn.to/3XnJxHP
– DeskPi Super6c Mini ITX case [Direct]: https://deskpi.com/collections/deskpi-super6c/products/deskpi-itx-case-kit-for-deskpi-super6c-raspberry-pi-cm4-cluster-mini-itx-board
– Guide for Raspberry Pi CM4 NVMe boot: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-can-boot-nvme-ssds-now
– DeskPi Super6c Ceph Storage Cluster video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecdm3oA-QdQ
– Top500 Ansible Automated Benchmark Playbook: https://github.com/geerlingguy/top500-benchmark
– Blog post with more benchmarking results: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/pi-cluster-vs-ampere-altra-max-128-core-arm-cpu

Contents:

00:00 – 24 cores – but not the same
00:52 – Apples to Apples
03:50 – Size comparison
04:52 – ARM in the cloud? Edge?
05:55 – ARM v ARM: top500 showdown
06:44 – New new bramble
07:38 – No time for microSD, we go NVMe
08:56 – Super6c, Super improved
10:27 – Linpack on the Pis
12:02 – Linpack on the Ampere Altra Max
12:46 – Price to performance
13:53 – Benchmarking methodology
14:56 – Is ARM the most efficient?
16:46 – GPUs: efficiency kings
17:48 – Platform maturity vs x86
19:38 – So what’s the verdict?
20:39 – Surprise Stolen Supermicro

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