Ask HN: Suggestions for low cost homebrew “HPC” beast?
Over the past few years I've been playing around with the idea of building large number crunching applications for fun and personal research. While the applications I had in mind aren't trivially parallel, they should map well to a parallel architecture.
There are generally two options for running a big parallel application:
1. going to a commercial provider, which is prohibitively expensive;
2. affiliation to a research lab, which is not the case for me and usually requires a research project for you to get compute time, no playing around with toy application.
I was wondering if anyone has experience with building a small homebrew number crunching machine on a budget. The best idea that I have so far is getting a few used server machines with decent GPUs.
There are generally two options for running a big parallel application: 1. going to a commercial provider, which is prohibitively expensive; 2. affiliation to a research lab, which is not the case for me and usually requires a research project for you to get compute time, no playing around with toy application.
I was wondering if anyone has experience with building a small homebrew number crunching machine on a budget. The best idea that I have so far is getting a few used server machines with decent GPUs.