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

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ServeTheHome (website): https://www.servethehome.com
ServeTheHome (YouTube):    / servethehomevideo  
The video Patrick has is the "Supermicro ARS210MEFNR", with the M12830 CPU
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Guide for Raspberry Pi CM4 NVMe boot: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...
DeskPi Super6c Ceph Storage Cluster video:    • 6in1: Build a 6node Ceph cluster o...  
Top500 Ansible Automated Benchmark Playbook: https://github.com/geerlingguy/top500...
Blog post with more benchmarking results: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...

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